Neil Shubin

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Neil Shubin
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Shubin after speaking at the University of Tulsa, with a skull cast of Tiktaalik
Born (1960-12-22) December 22, 1960 (age 64)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater Columbia University (A.B.)
Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Known forDiscovery of Tiktaalik roseae
AwardsMiller Research Fellowship [1]
Guggenheim Fellowship [2]
National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences 2015 Communication Award with Michael Rosenfeld and David Dugan in Film/Radio/TV for "Your Inner Fish"
Scientific career
Fields Evolutionary biology
Institutions University of Chicago
Field Museum of Natural History
Thesis The morphogenesis and origin of the skeletal pattern of the tetrapod limb  (1987)
Website uchicago.edu/neil-h-shubin

Neil Shubin (born December 22, 1960) is an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and Professor on the Committee of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago along with being the Provost of the Field Museum of Natural History. [3] He is best known for his co-discovery of Tiktaalik roseae with Ted Daeschler and Farish Jenkins. [4]

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Biography

Raised in Overbrook Hills section of Lower Merion Township [5] (contiguous to City of Philadelphia) and a graduate of Lower Merion High School, [6] Shubin earned a A.B. from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard University in 1987. [7] He also studied at the University of California, Berkeley. [8]

Shubin was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Shubin was ABC News' "Person of the Week" in April 2006 when Tiktaalik was unveiled, [9] and made appearances on The Colbert Report January 14, 2008 and January 9, 2013. [10]

The Communication Awards of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine awarded a $20,000 prize for excellence in communicating science to the general public to Michael Rosenfeld, David Dugan, and Neil Shubin in Film/Radio/TV on October 14, 2015, for Your Inner Fish. [11] The awards are given to individuals in four categories: books, film/radio/TV, magazine/newspaper and online, and are supported by the W. M. Keck Foundation. Neil Shubin hosted Your Inner Fish on PBS. [12] The show was produced by Windfall Films and Tangled Bank Studios, a production company for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that makes materials available for science classroom education. [13]

He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2017. [14] He also served as interim co-director of the Marine Biological Laboratory in 2017. [15]

In 2025, Shubin was nominated to become the next president of the National Academy of Sciences, succeeding Marcia McNutt when her final term ends on June 30, 2026. [16]

Below is a list of taxa that Shubin has contributed to naming:

YearTaxonAuthors
2022 Qikiqtania wakei gen. et sp. nov.Stewart, Lemberg, Daly, Daeschler & Shubin [17]
2019 Asterolepis alticristata sp. nov.Downs, Daeschler, Lo, Carey & Shubin [18]
2018 Eusthenopteron jenkinsi sp. nov.Downs, Daeschler, Long & Shubin [19]
2017 Cyclotosaurusnaraserluki sp. nov.Marzola, Mateus, Shubin & Clemmensen [20]
2016 Bothriolepis rex sp. nov.Downs, Daeschler, Garcia & Shubin [21]
2012 Beiyanerpetonjianpingensis gen. et sp. nov.Gao & Shubin [22]
2011 Laccognathus embryi sp. nov.Downs, Daeschler, Jenkins & Shubin [23]
2011 Diodorusscytobrachion gen. et sp. nov.Kammerer, Nesbitt & Shubin [24]
2006 Tiktaalik roseae gen. et sp. nov.Daeschler, Shubin & Jenkins [4]
2003 Chunerpeton tianyiensis gen. et sp. nov.Gao & Shubin [25]
2003 Equijubus normani gen. et sp. nov.You, Luo, Shubin, Witmer, Tang & Tang [26]
2001 Eudimorphodon cromptonellus sp. nov.Jenkins, Shubin, Gatesy & Padian [27]
2001 Sinerpeton fengshanensis gen. et sp. nov.Gao & Shubin [28]
1998 Antlerpeton clarkii gen. et sp. nov.Thomson, Shubin & Poole [29]
1997 Haramiyavia clemensi gen. et sp. nov.Jenkins, Gatesy, Shubin & Amaral [30]
1995 Prosalirus bitis gen. et sp. nov.Shubin & Jenkins [31]
1994 Protosuchus micmac sp. nov. Sues, Shubin, Olsen & Amaral [32]
1994 Hynerpeton bassetti gen. et sp. nov.Daeschler, Shubin, Thomson & Amaral [33]
1994 Clevosaurus bairdi sp. nov.Sues, Shubin & Olsen [34]
1991 Arctotraversodon gen. nov.Sues, Hopson & Shubin [35]

Awards and honors

In 2019, Shubin was named the recipient of the Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award. [36] Shubin was chosen primarily because of his discoveries to understand the origin of organs in the human body and the connectiveness of all life.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ All Miller Fellows Sorted by Term (1987) Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Neil H. Shubin—John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Archived 2013-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Neil Shubin Home Page". The University of Chicago. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
  4. 1 2 Daeschler, Edward B.; Shubin, Neil H.; Jenkins, Farish A. (2006-04-06). "A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan". Nature. 440 (7085): 757–763. Bibcode:2006Natur.440..757D. doi: 10.1038/nature04639 . ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   16598249.
  5. ↑ "A living fish has genetic clue to the past". www.inquirer.com. 28 May 2007. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Stars of David Week of 5/17/12". www.jewishexponent.com. 20 August 2012. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved December 24, 2021.[ title missing ]
  7. ↑ Alonso, Nathalie (April 2011). "Go Fish - Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin'82 brings out the fish in all of us". Columbia College Today. Archived from the original on July 19, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Edge: NEIL SHUBIN". Archived from the original on 2013-12-21. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
  9. ↑ "Person of the Week: Neil Shubin", ABC News , Elizabeth Vargas (reporting), April 7, 2006, retrieved April 8, 2012{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ↑ "The Colbert Report". Archived from the original on March 25, 2014.
  11. ↑ "2015 Communication Awards Ceremony by NAS-Webcast". The New Livestream. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
  12. ↑ Your Inner Fish Miniseries , retrieved November 8, 2022
  13. ↑ "Classroom Resources for Your Inner Fish". Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Archived from the original on 2015-12-19. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
  14. ↑ "American Philosophical Society: Newly Elected - April 2017". Archived from the original on 2017-09-15.
  15. ↑ "UChicago Faculty Members to Serve on MBL Interim Leadership Team". Marine Biological Laboratory. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  16. ↑ "Neil H. Shubin Nominated to Be Next National Academy of Sciences President". NAS Online.
  17. ↑ Stewart, Thomas A.; Lemberg, Justin B.; Daly, Ailis; Daeschler, Edward B.; Shubin, Neil H. (20 July 2022). "A new elpistostegalian from the Late Devonian of the Canadian Arctic". Nature . 608 (7923): 563–568. Bibcode:2022Natur.608..563S. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04990-w. ISSN   1476-4687. PMC   9385497 . PMID   35859171.
  18. ↑ Downs, Jason P.; Daeschler, Edward B.; Lo, Nathanael; Carey, Emily N.; Shubin, Neil H. (2019-10-17). "Asterolepis alticristata n. sp. (Antiarchi) from the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) of Nunavut, Canada, and a report on the antiarch diversity of the Fram Formation". Geodiversitas. 41 (1): 679. Bibcode:2019Geodv..41..679D. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a19. ISSN   1280-9659.
  19. ↑ Downs, Jason P.; Daeschler, Edward B.; Long, Alison M.; Shubin, Neil H. (2018). "Eusthenopteron jenkinsi sp. nov. (Sarcopterygii, Tristichopteridae) from the Upper Devonian of Nunavut, Canada, and a Review of Eusthenopteron Taxonomy". Breviora. 562 (1): 1–24. doi:10.3099/mcz44.1. ISSN   0006-9698. S2CID   51883892.
  20. ↑ and; and, and (2017-03-04). "Cyclotosaurus naraserluki, sp. nov., a new Late Triassic cyclotosaurid (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Fleming Fjord Formation of the Jameson Land Basin (East Greenland)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (2): e1303501. Bibcode:2017JVPal..37E3501M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1303501. hdl: 10362/33003 . ISSN   0272-4634.
  21. ↑ Downs, Jason P.; Daeschler, Edward B.; Garcia, Valentina E.; Shubin, Neil H. (2016-11-01). "A new large-bodied species of Bothriolepis (Antiarchi) from the Upper Devonian of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (6): e1221833. Bibcode:2016JVPal..36E1833D. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1221833. ISSN   0272-4634.
  22. ↑ Gao, Ke-Qin; Shubin, Neil H. (2012-04-10). "Late Jurassic salamandroid from western Liaoning, China". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (15): 5767–5772. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.5767G. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1009828109 . PMC   3326464 . PMID   22411790.
  23. ↑ Downs, Jason P.; Daeschler, Edward B.; Jenkins JR., Farish A.; Shubin, Neil H. (2011-09-01). "A new species of Laccognathus (Sarcopterygii, Porolepiformes) from the Late Devonian of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (5): 981–996. Bibcode:2011JVPal..31..981D. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.599462. ISSN   0272-4634.
  24. ↑ Kammerer, Christian F.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Shubin, Neil H. (2012). "The First Silesaurid Dinosauriform from the Late Triassic of Morocco". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 57 (2): 277–284. doi: 10.4202/app.2011.0015 . ISSN   0567-7920.
  25. ↑ Gao, Ke-Qin; Shubin, Neil H. (27 March 2003). "Earliest known crown-group salamanders" . Nature . 422 (6930): 424–428. Bibcode:2003Natur.422..424G. doi:10.1038/nature01491. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   12660782 . Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  26. ↑ You, Hai-lu; Luo, Zhe-xi; Shubin, Neil H.; Witmer, Lawrence M.; Tang, Zhi-lu; Tang, Feng (2003-06-01). "The earliest-known duck-billed dinosaur from deposits of late Early Cretaceous age in northwest China and hadrosaur evolution" . Cretaceous Research. 24 (3): 347–355. Bibcode:2003CrRes..24..347Y. doi:10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00048-X. ISSN   0195-6671.
  27. ↑ Jenkins, F. A. Jr.; Shubin, N. H.; Gatesy, S. M.; Padian, K. (2001). "A diminutive pterosaur (Pterosauria: Eudimorphodontidae) from the Greenlandic Triassic". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 156: 151–170.
  28. ↑ Gao, Ke-Qin; Shubin, Neil H. (2001). "Late Jurassic salamanders from northern China" . Nature. 410 (6828): 574–577. Bibcode:2001Natur.410..574G. doi:10.1038/35069051. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   11279493.
  29. ↑ Thomson, Keith Stewart; and Poole, Forrest G. (1998-06-15). "A problematic early tetrapod from the Mississippian of Nevada" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 18 (2): 315–320. Bibcode:1998JVPal..18..315T. doi:10.1080/02724634.1998.10011059. ISSN   0272-4634.{{cite journal}}: |first2= missing |last2= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  30. ↑ Jenkins, Farish A.; Gatesy, Stephen M.; Shubin, Neil H.; Amaral, William W. (1997). "Haramiyids and Triassic mammalian evolution" . Nature. 385 (6618): 715–718. Bibcode:1997Natur.385..715J. doi:10.1038/385715a0. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   9034187.
  31. ↑ Shubin, Neil H.; Jenkins, Farish A. (1995). "An Early Jurassic jumping frog" . Nature. 377 (6544): 49–52. Bibcode:1995Natur.377...49S. doi:10.1038/377049a0. ISSN   1476-4687.
  32. ↑ Sues, Hans-Dieter; Shubin, Neil H.; Olsen, Paul E.; Amaral, William W. (1996-03-19). "On the cranial structure of a new protosuchid (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the McCoy Brook Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Nova Scotia, Canada" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 16 (1): 34–41. Bibcode:1996JVPal..16...34S. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011281. ISSN   0272-4634.
  33. ↑ Daeschler, Edward B.; Shubin, Neil H.; Thomson, Keith S.; Amaral, William W. (1994-07-29). "A Devonian Tetrapod from North America" . Science. 265 (5172): 639–642. Bibcode:1994Sci...265..639D. doi:10.1126/science.265.5172.639. PMID   17752761.
  34. ↑ Sues, Hans-Dieter; Shubin, Neil H.; Olsen, Paul E. (1994-09-07). "A new sphenodontian (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from the McCoy Brook Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Nova Scotia, Canada" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 14 (3): 327–340. Bibcode:1994JVPal..14..327S. doi:10.1080/02724634.1994.10011563. ISSN   0272-4634.
  35. ↑ Sues, H.-D.; Hopson, J.A.; Shubin, N.H. (1992). "Affinities of ?Scalenodontoides plemmyridon Hopson, 1984 (Synapsida: Cynodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Nova Scotia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 12 (2): 168–17. Bibcode:1992JVPal..12..168S. doi:10.1080/02724634.1992.10011447.
  36. ↑ "2019 Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award". Roy Chapman Andrews Society.
  37. ↑ Universe within, discovering common history Archived 2020-03-07 at the Wayback Machine , New York Journal of Books
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