Chapter Nine

I thought that it was really cool that Shubin found an eye of a fossil. I didn't even know that was possible! I liked the way Shubin explained how our eyes work by comparing them to cameras. I remember someone telling me before that our eyes function like cameras, but they never broke it down so detailed for me. Thanks to Shubin I have a much better understanding of how our eyes function. It's pretty interesting. Shubin's diagram helped me a lot by letting me actually see what he meant. Our eyes are extremely complex. They have to work hard and lightning fast in order for us to see the world. It's amazing how our eyes absorb light and transform it into an image or multiple images with all of the information that it gets. Shubin is really helping me learn a lot about how my body functions. Although I find it interesting when Shubin talks about things like how genes duplicated and adapted to let us see in color, it is hard for me to believe because it goes against my faith and what I was brought up to believe. I think it is crazy how if you turned on the eyeless gene in the antennae, an eye grew there. Also, how when a mouse eye gene was turned on in a fly, a fly eye grew there. It's amazing how our bodies just know what to do. This among many other things Shubin has taught me proves how complex, amazing, and hard working the human body, or any other creature's body is.