This is Tiktaalik, a flat-headed lobe-finned fish found in Devonian rock. (Potential viewers should be warned that during the program Shubin engages in crude dialogue about human male anatomy.) The LA Times calls Your Inner Fish a “smart human anatomy lesson.” 1 However, like the new Cosmos, Your Inner Fish juxtaposes factual human anatomy with tiresome tales that misleadingly suggest Shubin’s evolutionary interpretations superimposed on the fossils, genetics, embryology, and anatomy in the episode are as trustworthy as the observational science. “If you really want to see why you’re built the way you are,” he invites us, “it’s time to meet your inner fish.” Looking ahead to upcoming episodes, Your Inner Reptile and Your Inner Monkey, Shubin portrays the human body as the culmination of many steps that trace a course all the way up the evolutionary tree of life. Recounting the tale of Tiktaalik’s discovery as if it were a suspenseful detective saga, Shubin shows viewers how he recovered this vital missing link, how he unearthed our long-lost “family member” from the Canadian Arctic, how he found the piece of the evolutionary puzzle that supposedly completes our story. Based on Shubin’s book of the same name, Your Inner Fish premiered on PBS this week to convince us that our bodies evolved from fish.

Shubin’s three-part series appeals to this curiosity. And people are definitely interested in why their bodies malfunction. Most people are interested in how their bodies work. He claims the human body itself contains the evidence for evolution and that “we are, every one of us, just a jury-rigged fish.” Building a Body Shubin mingles observable wonders of biology with evolutionary explanations for their origin.

Evolution must be his religion.Your Inner Fish, hosted on PBS by fish paleontologist Neil Shubin of Tiktaalik fame, blends fishy fables with embryology, genetics, and human anatomy. It's pretty funny that someone actually believes the way he does. He even used Haeckels' embryos as evidence when that man was proven a fraud hundreds of years ago. Just fantastic imaginations and suppositions. Note that there are no scientific 'facts' about evolution in this movie. A man this deranged should not be allowed to teach anything more than fairy tales he's made up. He's insane, and it worried me that he is (or was) head of the anatomy department at some university. He thinks everyone looks like a fish because he's been indoctrinated into believing we evolved from fish. Note that there is no science involved in this study and the 'doctor' is sadly a complete madman. Then I realized how it might be used to educate children on lies and deception and was worried that some may actually believe this trash of a movie. I watched this a while back and just laughed most of the way through.

Your inner fish series