And the opening credits in each of the three episodes have Shubin on the "L" explaining that, as an evolutionary biologist, he looks at people differently than the rest of us do.Īnd so we see a normal-looking rider whose tongue (animated) suddenly shoots out like a lizard's, amphibians trudging along the car's floor (in what is not a comment on Chicago Transit Authority janitorial practices), a Chicago Tribune that is pulled down to reveal a large fish as its reader (in what is surely not a comment on the Tribune or its readers). There are aerial shots of Lake Michigan ice - a clever transition from arctic ice - leading to a view of Navy Pier, and there is much beautiful photography of the city skyline at night.įootage from the ice rink at Millennium Park helps demonstrate how the human primate lost its tail. The series takes Shubin around the world: back to the site of the Tiktaalik discovery in 2004 up into the canopy of the rain forest where monkeys' hands let them reach the bounty at the edge of tree limbs to the spot in Ethiopia's Rift Valley where the human ancestor known as Lucy was discovered.īut it is firmly rooted in Chicago. This may not be an old joke to many, but "Your Inner Fish," at least, arms us with enough knowledge to chuckle along.
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