Ch 9: Dude you smell like a fish!

First of all I'd like to say is that I LOVE SHUBIN'S CONFIDENCE UPON HIMSELF! He begins talking about the revolutionary scientist and their careers and then he compares them to himself, then making the comment "I was made to feel that, because of my love of fossils, i was going to be replace by one of those new automated DNA sequencers". I thought it was funny because he doesn't even argue that he was not going to be replaced he just accepted it, but in the end he was still around. Well anyways, this chapter was very interesting because well it concentrated on what and how we smell. I didn't know that each scent has its own place to go to inside a sac in our head. I thought that it was amazing that we could even have that many smell cells. Also i thought it was pretty cool that the lung fish is even more related to us than i thought. Who would have knew that it could smell us when we smell it. As far as Buck and Axel go, i thought their discovery was amazing! How in the world did they figure out we have so many smell genes? Did they crack skulls open and put it under a microscope? Well its still amazing how they made a glorious discovery. As i was reading i came to the part about the experiment of extracting DNA, i thought it was not possible but then i recalled i did it in chemistry and so i had to retry it. As i was doing the experiment i was getting more and more excited that i was going to see DNA but the ending was a major let down because i realized i didn't have a microscope. Anyways back to our noses, since mutation makes some of our olfactory genes useless, isn't there a way to reactivate these senses with medicine or through further mutation?