I loved the way the author wrote in this chapter. I would say he used a lot of rhetorical and artful use of words. Shubin is very good at attracting the reader's mind because he knows what we want to know by asking about the bodies' origin and the reason why they exist. I believe the subtitle "Habeas Corpus: Show me the Body," was an attention getter and it hooked me. It is fabulous to me that human beings' history takes only the last day out of an year calendar, and I can't believe creatures with body existed since October.
I totally agreed on how Shubin says "Timing is everything," and I would rephrase it as "Time is gold," because he says the progress of time allows a person to build or found something great, but at the same time, the antecedent's work could also become useless. He compares this to the ihstory of life. I am 150% for sure that if we have bodies right now and the primitive creatures didn't, then in far future, there will be creatures that will possibly have wings and fins at the same time.
-Jeffrey Jun
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