University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin made headlines with the recent discovery of the 375-million-year-old fossil remains of Tiktaalik roseae—dubbed the “missing link” between fish and land animals. To celebrate the opening of EVOLUTION, the museum’s new permanent exhibition, Shubin will discuss the evolutionary baggage that we carry in our genetic lineage that originated in earlier animals.

The Tiktaalik roseae was discovered in 2004 by Shubin and his colleagues, Dr. Ted Daeschler (The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia) and Dr. Farish A. Jenkins Jr. (Harvard University). Shubin hold several titles at the University of Chicago including Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, and Provost of The Field Museum. Free and open to the public in the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street.