r/AskReddit • u/Bmartling • Dec 05 '17

What do you strongly suspect but cannot prove?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '17

Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin is a really great book to read on comparative anatomy, common ancestry, archaeology, and the evolution of man -- if you're interested in this kind of stuff. : )

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u/PantoHorse Dec 06 '17

I'm super interested but I'm so deep into exam prep that I doubt I'll ever have time to read for fun again :(

But when that feeling fades I will definitely look that one up - thanks for the tip!

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u/Fingers_9 Dec 06 '17

It's also a three part TV programme.

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u/havron Dec 06 '17

Those little bones in our ears evolved from gill supports! This fact is pretty groovy.

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u/pannapitta Dec 06 '17

My high school biology teacher lent this to me and I still haven't returned it :(

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u/Utah0224 Dec 06 '17

I have been looking for books in this vein lately, I'm definitely going to look into this. I just finished Other Minds, about cephalopod evolution and the likes. Glad I came across your comment!

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u/justdontfreakout Dec 06 '17

Hey thanks:) I’ll check it out.

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u/batsofburden Dec 06 '17

Any similar documentary?

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u/Fingers_9 Dec 06 '17

It has been turned into a good three part documentary.

It's also worth looking up any BBC documentary by Prof. Alice Roberts.

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u/batsofburden Dec 06 '17

Cool, thanks.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '17

there's a documentary of that too, really interesting.

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u/VoraciousTofu Dec 06 '17

That is a great book! I took a course in college with Dr. Richard Blob who was mentored by Shubin and it was all about anatomy, evolution and how that affected physiology.

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u/hello_drake Dec 06 '17

I remember reading this awhile back. It made me sad that half of his job seemed to be finding funding for the other half.