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Internationally acclaimed evolutionary biologist and popular science author Neil Shubin will deliver a talk titled, “Finding Your Inner Fish” at 7:30 p.m., March 8, in McCrary Theatre. He is known best for the discovery of Tiktaalik roseae , an extinct transitional species that provides strong fossil evidence of the evolutionary connection between ancient lobe-finned fishes and true land animals.

The Department of Performing Arts brings to the stage this weekend 110 in the Shade, a musical that takes the audience into Depression-era Texas where one woman rediscovers love when a con man comes to town with promises to end a drought. The show opens Thursday night in McCrary Theatre.