March Evo Meetup

The topic of discussion for the March Meetup will deviate from Darwin's Origin to a recent book by our contemporary, Niel Shubin: Your Inner FIsh.

Neil Shubin is the paleontologist who discovered Tiktaalik, and his book is delightful and invaluable.

Tiktaalik!

The usual details apply: we will be way in the back of the Malibu Diner. Usually we are in the very back by the rear, mirrored, wall.

As much as I love Sean Carroll's recent books, and a good number of excellent books that have come out in the last few years, this might be the best of all as an introduction. I can not praise this book too much.

And it is wonderful to get a word in Inuktitut into common worldwide discourse....

By the way, if any of you plan to buy a copy of Your Inner Fish for the Meetup, the following aside in an email from the book's talented illustrator, Kalliopi Monoyios, might figure in your thinking:

I don't know if your book group typically buys the books you read
through a particular seller, but if not, the lowly illustrator (!) gets
a cut from Amazon or Powell's if you buy through either of those links
on our website: http://tiktaalik.uchi... . I've exhausted the
generosity of my friends and family, now I have to reach out to the book
clubs to get (quasi-) royalties! ....

I think that I will be buying any other copies of the book from that site. It is a gratifying way to express my appreciation of good work well done in a noble cause. And I am sure that I will be picking up other copies....