Chapter 6

This chapter was interesting for me in one dynamic way-by way of help. I liked how the affluence of Christian Pander opened many doors for von Baer. Von Baer was not financially capable to complete the experiments that he needed but help was there to aid him. One affordable experiment with the chicken embryos led to expeditions on other embryos, that of fish, reptiles, and other mammals. With his multiple experiments, von Baer found that the different species had similar points of origins for certain organs. This was apparently new news to me because I had never thought that different things in life can have similar to same points of origins...in the world of math yes but all else no.