In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin dons his molecular biologist hat. In Your Inner Fish (2008), written with his paleontologist hat on, Shubin described the discovery and significance of Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish with features like those of early tetrapods,…
How quickly we forget. When the coronavirus pandemic started, public health experts warned that vaccines were unlikely to become available for years. Having vaccines within 18 months was considered a wildly optimistic estimate. (Those experts were not just being killjoys—ensuring that a vaccine is…