Getting Ahead

I really found that the way Shubin likes to learn is similar to my style of learning. He seems to be the character that has a hands on approach to learning. My point of view is such that when he was studying the facial nerves he needed the skull to see it and trace the complex pathways that each facial nerve takes. This seems to be a key way of learning for archaeologists because most of their days work is out in the field and they are on their hands and knees trying to look for clues to where we and other animals came from.

Another thing in this chapter that I found interesting was how he took the aspects he learned in college and applied it to real life. I am specifically talking about how when he broke open the wall and found the utility cables all jumbled around. And at that specific moment he connected it to the facial nerves and the way the nerves had intrinsic pathways and how the pathway was unique.