Neil Shubin: Why Would a Fish Have Fingers?

Neil Shubin: Why Would a Fish Have Fingers?

By Alan Alda

And if it comes to that, wrist, elbows, and lungs? Neil Shubin found that fish in 375 million-year-old rocks in the Canadian Arctic. It was the earliest known evidence of what Neil calls the Great Transition, when life was about to emerge from water to land.

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