Ch9: I see you

Shubin is an amazing man, like seriously when you think that he cant go on any more interesting adventures he talks about his adventures in China. Well his ADVENTURES aren't like those of Shaggy and Scooby but that of Indian Jones, without the undead and booby traps. Well his story is about his encounter with a rare fossil that was well preserved and had extraordinary detail. To many this sounds boring but i bet when he saw this fossil he reacted the same way we do when we get that item we want. Well this chapter was pretty cool, it talked about how our eyes work. From the receptors to the corneas I learned that in order for us to see properly our eyes must stay under constant shading, once the light changes our receptors must recharge. From the discussion of the eyes it crazy how they connect to our DNA sequence and eventually relate to prehistoric bacteria. I would have never thought that we could relate to bacteria, fish maybe, but bacteria, that's crazy. Another thing that's crazy is that our color vision genes mutate over the years because in order for the species to survive new characteristics must be developed. Shubin supplies an example of monkeys how their colored vision developed in order to spot predators more easily and in order to categorize the different types of food to determine which are edible. Over all this chapter was a trip because Shubin once again played with the laws of nature, by mutating flies with the eyeless genes. They created eyes where eyes should not be.