The way the author brings this book together is marvelous. Neil Shubin starts of by saying in the preface that he is a paleontologist by profession but had to teach a class in anatomy. This start shows that he is attempting to try to explain the evolutionary process via a unorthodox way, not through chimps and apes but through fishes.

Within the first chapter, the most interesting aspect to me was the way Shubin and his friend/colleague take advantage of the scaled rock walls that were created by PennDOT. I think the government should do a joint funding of such research. Have half the money go to create public transportation, but in the process of exposing sheer cliffs of correct aged rocks, allow some money to go to the paleontologist to create and explore for fossils that might help piece together the evolutionary cycle, whether for chimps and apes to fishes.