It's funny how some species have the same design, yet they all have different sizes and shapes. Sadly, when it comes to primitive animals, no human structure can match. A few pages into this chapter, when Shubin started talking about blastocysts and how it's part of the process of our development, I was all ears. I have a penchant when it comes to learning about the formation of our entire body and how it goes through many stages of development, yet it seems pretty grotesque to cut ourselves open and see a tube within a tube. I can't even imagine how highly intricate our developing stages are. Towards the middle of the chapter, the book starts talking about flies. To me flies are annoying with their persistent buzzing and I would always try to swap them with a fly swapper; However, a simple fly contains the mutation in genes that give us clues about the genes active in human embryos. Who knew they were so important.
My favorite part of this chapter was at the very end when Shubin mentions how we are compared to animals with bodies, but how do we compare ourselves to animals with no bodies? Hmm...
-Mitasha Sujan
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