Your Inner Fish

What is Neil Shubin looking for?

• fossils of fish

• evidence of natural selection

• fossils of pre-ancestral humans

• none of the above

What kind of doctor is Neil Shubin?

• Fish Paleontologist

• Fish Surgeon

• Human Doctor

• Anthropologist

What was the trait that fish were the first creatures to have?

• bone skeletons

• tails

• gills

• eyes

Where did the paleontologists go for their 1st expedition?

• Brazil (Amazon Rainforest)

• Galapagos Islands

• Pennsylvania Highway

• Arizona Deserts

In the early stages of development, all animals begin with...?

• tails

• eyes

• a cell

• lipids

What is the Sonic Hedgehog responsible for?

• tails

• fur

• # of digits on each hand

• structure of forelimbs

What does Tiktaalik mean?

• large freshwater fish

• large crocodile

• small amphibian lizard

• small tetrapod

What features does the Tiktaalik have that fish typically do not?

• flatten head

• neck

• large bone/small bone pattern

• all of the above

What did anatomist Sir Richard Owen discover?

• homologous structures

• evidence of natural selection

• vestigial structures

• none of the above

How did we get from fish with fins to humans with arms?

• transitional species

• speciation

• mutations

• vestigial structures