Ch. 1 - Finding Your Inner Fish

I though it was really amazing how everything that we see everyday is only one percent of what had ever been alive. Also, all the methods that paleontologists have to find fossils were really cool. I never really knew what they did besides digging up fossils and assumed it was an easy job, but learned that it is certainly not. I liked the way that the author wrote the novel because it was casual and easy to read along. He wrote in a way that made you actually care what he was talking about, unlike other science books. It was interesting to read about what he and the other paleontologists had to endure while looking for fossils and also the transitional phases found in Tiktaalik. People always talk about evolution beginning from monkeys but i never heard of it going as far back as people transitioning from fish. I also liked reading about and seeing the similarities and differences between humans and animals, and the pictures and diagrams helped me understand some points.