HOOOOORAY! It is the last and final chapter left to blog! I will just start off saying how beneficial blogging has been to my reading experience of Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin. I really enjoyed the process of blogging throughout the last couple chapters and reading what other's opinions and thoughts about the book!
Chapter 8 was definitely one of the top chapters that I enjoyed reading the most partly because it was the shortest, but mostly because it was the most simplest chapter to fully grasp. It was also one of the most fascinating chapters. Shubin spoke a lot about our sense of smell, which really intrigued and fascinated me. It is interesting that we as humans along with other animals are able to smell many different objects and identify them with our sense of smell. One fun fact that I thought was interesting was just as Bryan Munar said, was that fish are able to smell underwater! That is so weird, yet so intriguing to think about.... I wonder how crucial the fish's sense of smell is for its ability to stay alive underwater! Then he explains about the two types of smelling genes- above water and under water. It's so trippy (so to speak) to imagine living life under water and the differences of each type of smelling gene. Does it work the same way? Regardless, that part was very interesting and really made me stop and think :)
Another fun fact that Shubin shared was that we, as humans favor sight over smell. Because of this, the animals in previous generations passed down genes that were not as functional anymore.
Chapter 8 was a chapter full of interesting facts and I hope that although we are not blogging anymore, I will still enjoy the rest of the book in the same way that I have for the first eight chapters!
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