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15 Oct 2025 → 05 Nov 2025
Guest lecturer

Our Ancestors the fish

15 Oct 2025 → 05 Nov 2025
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    from Wednesday 15 October to Wednesday 5 November 2025
    See also:
    • Denis Duboule
    Fossile d'un vertébré préhistorique nommé le Tiktaalik, montrant son crâne aplati, ses orbites et sa structure osseuse intermédiaire entre celle des poissons et des tétrapodes
    Tiktaalik, a fossil from the Devonian period. Field Museum, Chicago. CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Neil Shubin is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Prof. Denis Duboule.

    Neil Shubin

    Neil Shubin

    University of Chicago, President-elect of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), USA

    Presentation

    380 million years ago, our fish ancestors started to evolve those structures that would allow some of them to subsequently colonize the terrestrial environment. How can we try to reconstruct this extraordinary evolutionary transition today and have some ideas of how this all happened?

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    Guest lecturer
    11:00 - 12:00

    Neil Shubin (1)

    Neil Shubin
    15 Oct 2025
    Our Ancestors the fish
    Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    15 Oct 2025
    11:00 - 12:00
    Guest lecturer
    11:00 - 12:00

    Neil Shubin (2)

    Neil Shubin
    22 Oct 2025
    Our Ancestors the fish
    Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    22 Oct 2025
    11:00 - 12:00
    Guest lecturer
    11:00 - 12:00

    Neil Shubin (3)

    Neil Shubin
    29 Oct 2025
    Our Ancestors the fish
    Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    29 Oct 2025
    11:00 - 12:00
    Guest lecturer
    11:00 - 12:00

    Neil Shubin (4)

    Neil Shubin
    05 Nov 2025
    Our Ancestors the fish
    Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    05 Nov 2025
    11:00 - 12:00

    See also

    Denis Duboule, chair Evolution of Development and Genomes

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