Chapter 5: Getting Ahead

The first thing I noticed when I starting read the fifth chapter was that Shubin, the author, was a procrastinator just like me! He was staying up late trying to cram in information for his big final coming up. I might have waited till the night OF, but still. And I probably wouldn't be holding to pieces of head in my hands, but to each their own. Moving on, I found his discussion of the brain and its inner working profoundly interesting, everything felt so methodical and astoundingly perfect that its quite hard to rap your head around. No pun intended if there was one. Everything seems to work in perfect unison, and that leads into his next topic which discusses embryos and the different arches that develop during our growth, and how even a small discrepancy or mistake can mean major damages to a person's life. When it comes to the Shark and Human Embryo Diagram, I couldn't help but compare the human embryo to an Elephant and the Shark's to a snake. There's just nothing else you can say when looking at those two pictures! Sharks are cool, but I'm glad we're different.

Matt Xa