Geek of the Week: Neil Shubin

Here we honor Muggle geeks who embody Ravenclaw spirit...
when they succeed, they soar, and when they fail, they fail spectacularly!

Neil Shubin (b. 1960)
“The world is filled with puzzles, all kinds of interesting questions and it's our challenge to figure them out. It's not just like this static file cabinet of things that human beings know. It's ever expanding.”

Paleontologist in the Hogwarts house!  Shubin famously discovered tiktaalik roseae, a 375 million years old fossil fish... it's a no-longer-missing link, you guys.  The author of "Your Inner Fish" and "The Universe Within" is a former Provost of the fantastically awesome Field Museum, because that's where evolutionary biologists hang out for fun.

Right now Shubin's cooling his heels at UChicago in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy.  He goes hiking and fly-fishing on occasion, but he's so geeky, finding info on hobbies took a lot of digging!  #explorationpun

Find out more about Neil Shubin on Wikipedia.