{"id":1150,"date":"2009-12-23T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2009-12-23T13:50:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:50:04","slug":"your-inner-fish-now-for-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"“Your Inner Fish” Now for the Classroom."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure that we are all familiar with Neil Shubin’s book “Your Inner Fish<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>which wonderfully tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. Now Shubin has compiled the figures from the book into a deck of PowerPoint Slides<\/a> for use in the classroom. All the way from Tiktaalik<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>to the “Meaning of it All” these are great educational aids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure that we are all familiar with Neil Shubin’s book “Your Inner Fish\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0which wonderfully tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-iy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1951,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1951","url_meta":{"origin":1150,"position":0},"title":"Another step closer","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"My book (Going Ape: Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Battles over Evolution in the Classroom) has inched a bit closer to the publishing finish line. 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