CH. 8, 9, 10, & 11

Finishing the rest of the book definitely involved cramming much information into my head. However, when I began digesting all of the facts given, I began to realize that everything covered in Your Inner Fish, from the beginning to the end, the main idea has been that the human structure, almost every single part of it, could be traced to many different animals and creatures as well. Those connections are what allow us to discover what the earliest beings that lived on this planet may have been like, as well as any other life forms that have existed. Our ability to smell, see, and hear, is pretty much the same for all other animals, except for slightly different quirks in how we obtain those senses specifically. It was fascinating to read about all of the slightest little details that gift us with the ability to absorb our surroundings in many ways, and that without a tiniest little part, we may not be able to function a specific sense correctly.
The final chapter truly hit the spot in summing up the whole book. I really liked how he described our whole entire body as a zoo with all the different functions being a part of it. Up to the very end, Shubin continuously and consistently related us as people to a fish, in that if we were to trace our ancestors back far enough, we are bound to find similarities, its just that along the lineage line, the genetic makeup would change here and there until eventually, we may seem completely different to others. It was quite an experience reading through this novel throughout the summer. I have a new outlook on life now, especially when seeing other creatures, instead just seeing them as something existing on the same Earth as me, they have instead become something that is like me physically, just different looking.