I found this chapter really interesting because, rather than telling us what exactly the body does to form itself, it explains exactly how it forms itself. It was a little overwhelming with all of its information, but it was engaging nonetheless. From the start of the chapter, I was amazed of Shubin's assertion that the information that builds bodies are contained in each tiny cell. I was also intrigued by the fact that Shubin made it seem like our organs have minds of their own; how they're constantly changing to match the size of our body, or how skin cells can "communicate to maintain its integrity and the regularity of its surface", and how other cells sometimes "don't know when to stop growing".
I found it cool that our bodies are arranged according to the type of molecular "glue" along the cell membranes. Also, when Shubin went into the actual origin of bodies at the end of the chapter, it made me realize just how amazing the primitive organisms were billions of years ago to have the tools to begin to construct the complex bodies we see today.
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