Chapter 5: Getting Ahead

This book seriously gets more and more interesting as I read it. Although there are parts that gross me out, like the one about how he was "holding half of the head in each hand" and "being surrounded by the bodies of 25 human beings under sheets" , Shubin catches my attention to learn and read more about the complex structure of the human body with more enthusiasim. I also love how the author tells the readers a main idea of what the chapter would be about. Learning about the different nerves in our body, the anguli oris, was also very interesting. The diagram explaing the process of the embryo really helped me understand the gill archs from embryo to adult. In all, it always connects our body to other simpler animals or fish such as the shark. How arches, which are the road map for major chunks of the skull are connected to thoses of a shark's. I wonder what will he next after learning about the complex structure of the head.