Chapter Five: Getting Ahead

When he began talking about how the inside of your skull looks I was interested. I liked that he mostly focused on the human species instead of the fish when explaining the concepts of the brain. And when I understood the concepts it was easier to understand the connections. The diagrams helped the most, I am a visual person and I can’t always picture how the two things are similar, and the diagrams achieved that for me. Though this was the most detailed chapter so far, it wasn’t confusing and it didn’t seem like I was reading a textbook. Maybe it’s because I was interested in the structure of the brain or because Shubin explained it on much simpler levels. Though this chapter didn’t reveal a story or a discovery, which I usually dislike in this book, I was intrigued throughout this entire chapter and I kept wanting to turn the page.