I'm so weird that when I heard the title I got excited. It just seemed like an interesting book to me. I seriously wanted to find my inner fish.
I heard good things from this book and yeah, they're true. First off, Shubin's style of writing is really intriguing. It's definitely not a textbook, and even then, it's definitely not some boring scientist document. It was definitely interesting to find out that humans stem from fish. It really helped that Shubin decided to include diagrams in the book. I consider myself somewhat a visual learner so it definitely helped in understanding. It was also really cool to find out that temperatures and climates were very different before. Even mountain regions. Some existed then that don't exist now.
I also love his personal stories that he shares. It just made the Tiktaalik more than what it seemed. I seriously can't wait to read the rest of this book.
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I noticed that many others are observing Shubin's writing style... and that's actually not what we're supposed to be doing. But i do agree with you... the way he gets his point across is quite intriguing.
ReplyDeleteI myself feel the same way about how much the temperature and climates can really impact the study... and it's pretty fascinating that the temperature and climate are just several branches from the list of other things that impact the study of biology