As always, Shubin manages to lure me into the chapter by starting off with an interesting topic or story about his life. This time it was the story about “literally watching an animal being built” (116). That’s SOO cool!!! It makes me want to go into paleontology! But I most likely won’t… but I would like to be able to experience seeing an animal being built. I wonder if seeing the formation of an animal is actually like seeing the creation of a building. What also intrigues me is the fact that if something goes wrong with just ONE cell then it can result many problems including death. D: The way he described that ONE cell as rebellious or bully cell kind of made me laugh yet feel worried about me possibly having a bully cell. When Shubin used January 1st as the start of time and December 31st as today I was impressed, then that changed to astonished when he said the first animal with a head appeared in October. I learned another important fact about oxygen: increased oxygen levels = increased appearance of bodies. I have to admit that learning about collagen, cartilage proteoglycan was confusing. Then he compared it to a giant piece of jell-o and tug-of-war and I understood 50x better; yet another reason to be thankful to Shubin.
-Julia
p.s. I will be going on vacation to Rome, Italy and my blog for next week will be delayed for a couple of days
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