Neil Shubin (born 1960) is an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science writer. He is Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago and is best known for co-discovering *Tiktaalik roseae*, a fossil that provides a crucial link between fish and the earliest four-limbed vertebrates. Through research spanning paleontology, developmental biology, and genetics, he has helped illuminate the evolutionary origins of the human body while becoming one of the leading communicators of evolutionary science. His best-known book, "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body," explains how the human body bears the imprint of its evolutionary past and became an international bestseller. It later inspired the PBS documentary series "Your Inner Fish."
