Neil Shubin

Neil Shubin is the author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, which was chosen by the National Academy of Sciences as the best book of the year in 2009. Trained at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley, Shubin is associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago. In 2011 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

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Auld Lang Syne

The Year Used to Be Longer!

<p>How long is a year? It’s not a trick question—biologist Neil Shubin, the author of the new book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Universe-Within-Discovering-History/dp/0307378438/" target="_blank">The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People</a></i>, tells the story of how coral reefs provide evidence that epochs ago, there were more days in a year.</p>

Neil Shubin