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Neil Shubin Quotes
«This animal represents the transition from water to land?the part of history that includes ourselves.»
«Here is a creature with fins that can do push-ups. This is clearly an animal that is able to support itself on the ground.»
«It is a fish that shows a surprising combination of characteristics of land-living animals.»
«It shows us the stages by which land-living animals were constructed.»
«Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish.»
«It represents the transition from water to land - the part of history that includes ourselves. When we talk about the fish's wrist, we're talking about the origin of parts of our own wrist.»
«We were always looking over our shoulders; we saw lots of tracks.»
«We did a few high fives when we uncovered the fossil, but there's only so much celebrating you can do in the Arctic.»
«What we saw was a real mosaic between characteristics of fish and those previously thought to be only in land animals. The fossil was showing us how creatures were assembled over time to live on land.»
«The world is filled with puzzles, all kinds of interesting questions and it's our challenge to figure them out. It's not just like this static file cabinet of things that human beings know. It's ever expanding.»