Comments on: Your Inner Fish https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/ Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: JrzyGrrl https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508218 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:39:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508218 Every year, the University of Montana-Missoula assigns a book to the incoming freshman class to read before they come to campus, the theory being that at least they will all have a common topic of conversation in the early days of getting acclimated to college. My daughter’s freshman read (last year) was “Your Inner Fish”. Being a geologist, I decided to read it, too. Liked it so much, I made my book club read it. Even the non-scientists in the group enjoyed it and could follow his explanations readily. (FYI, I also made them read Darwin – they liked this one better – LOL!).

]]> By: george.w https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508217 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:59:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508217 My son sent it to me as a present. (He done grow’d up right!) Perhaps if I were an anatomist I would have found the intro section superfluous but to me it was useful. I loved the section where he learned to see fossils. Notice the book isn’t discussed much by ID advocates. ‘Cause it sorta incinerates their position.

Now reading Life Ascending by Nick Lane.

]]> By: Drivebyposter https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508216 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:25:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508216 Read it twice already. It is an excellent book.

]]> By: ppb https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508215 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:30:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508215 I’ve read it too and I think it’s a great book. I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Shubin talk about Tiktaalik at Harvard. He’s as good a speaker as he is a writer.

]]> By: Chris P https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508214 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:36:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508214 It’s now on mt ‘to buy’ list, thanks.

]]> By: Jim Thomerson https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508213 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:27:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508213 Premeds, back in the dark ages, took Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy as a required course. This has slipped away in recent times. Part of the reason is that students found the course too demanding. I’d be very interested to know which programs still require CVA as part of the premed curriculum. Hopefully there are still some out there.

]]> By: GregH https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508212 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:39:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508212 One of my favourite books. It changed the way I think about biology and development. There’s a lot of food for thought for such a slim volume.

]]> By: Al West https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508211 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:04:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508211 Read it when it came out in paperback, and loved it. That was a few years ago now, and, short of cash last year (grad student times…), I sold it on amazon. Might have been a mistake! Wonderful little book.

]]> By: Pete Moulton https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508210 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:57:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508210 You owe it to yourself to find some time for this one NLaible–it’s a terrific read. And, yes, I’d agree with Greg’s approach.

]]> By: NLaible https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508209 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:48:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/22/your-inner-fish/#comment-508209 On my bookshelf and still waiting for time to read it. At least I can cut out one chapter thanks to your caveat.

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