Chapter Cinco: Tu Inner Pescado

Getting a head. Ah ha ha. Very funny, Shubin. So, when he started describing the lab he was in at 2 in the morning, memorizing this and that, surrounded by a bunch of dead bodies under sheets, again, I was creeped out. This dude has serious work area problems. And then he went into describing the different nerves, and when he talked about the facial nerve and what the names are to these muscles, I found myself actually doing what he was saying: flaring your nostrils, raising your eyebrow, etc. I felt really retarded, but hey, I understood what he was saying.

Thank you pictures for making my life easier (: Have I ever said how much I love his little pictures and diagrams? Because I totally do. If they were not there, I would have thought of the different arches way differently. And then he explained about our inner shark, and I thought to myself, hey, that's pretty cool, my little brother looked like a nasty shark when he was being created. But then, so did I. Haha.

When he started talking about the "gene addresses", it reminded me of the previous chapter about genes, so since I understood that, I understood what he was saying about how if you move or "turn off" some genes, a frog would have two jaws. That would be a trippy frog. Ribbit. And then we get to worms, which gross me out, and he talked about jelly notochords and now I don't want to be compared to a worm ever again. Thanks, Shubin.