Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body

by Neil Shubin

It looks as if our distant ancestors avoided the fight.

Explains our fear/fascination with sharks?

In retrospect, the moment when I first saw the wrist of a fish was as meaningful as the first time I unwrapped the fingers of the cadaver back in the human anatomy lab. Both times I was uncovering a deep connection between my humanity and another being.

Our fish-to-human framework is so strongly supported that we no longer try to marshal evidence for it—doing so would be like dropping a ball fifty times to test the theory of gravity.

Evolution for sure