My absolute favorite thing about this book so far after reading Chapter 1 is the authro's use of colloquial language; it makes the book so much easier to understand 10x more fun to read because it feels like the author is talking to you instead of you just reading pure boring facts about evolution and life.
The most interesting thing about this chapter has got to be the "tiktaalik". When I was reading about the discovery of this transition creature, I had a really difficult time picturing how it looked like; the closest thing I came up with was that it looked like a cross between a dragon (scaly, has a wrist, limbs) and alligator (flat head). I still don't know if that's accurate, but it was still really fun trying to picture this creature in my head.
Another thing I found interesting or thought-provoking was "How can such different animals all be related? How can humans be compared to fish??". The answer to that is evolution. Mammals adapt to survive in their enviornment and/or to deal with enviornmental changes and thus their body structures change, leading to the inevitable development of the earlist humans. Even after discovering the answer to my question in Chapter 1, I am still amazed at the process of this dramatic change or evolution; it's just too weird to think that we evolved from fish!
- Ejay Yuan
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LOL nice Ejay, I want that tikaalik thing haahhahahah
ReplyDeleteEjay, I can totally see the Tiktaalik being a cross of a dragon and alligator!
ReplyDeleteExcellently put, I agree with just about everything you wrote.
ReplyDeleteYEP! YEP!
ReplyDeleteJust like Ejay wrote the author used "colloquial language" in first chapter.
I think this way can encourage reader to keep reading it :)
Dude, I was like almost on the same page as you about the Tiktaalik! It reminded me a bit of a Komodo Dragon mixed with a snake-alligator look.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you on how could all these species be related?! But I manage to believe it very quickly.