尼尔·舒宾：让美国国家科学院保持相关性

New president of the beleaguered National Academy of Sciences discusses its future and the precarious state of U.S. science under Trump JEFFREY MERVIS Having grown up in suburban Philadelphia, Neil Shubin had never even gone overnight camping before taking his first field trip to Greenland as a young paleontologist. But liv- ing in tents in the Arctic was a prerequisite for a career that has included a slew of fossil discoveries, including Tiktaalik, an extinct, 375-million-year-old lobe-finned fish with features found in today’s four-legged animals. “That was probably more existential than most learning experiences,” he says about enduring the gale- force winds and biting cold. “But you learn on the job.” …