Chapter Seven: Adventures in Bodybuilding

When Shubin explained that this chapter was going to be about the when, how, and why of bodies I was interested. But after the first couple pages I lost that interest. I don’t really know why but I kept losing focus and my mind would go off into other directions. The only subject of this chapter that I wanted to read was the why. I find it funny that a scientist disproved another’s assumptions, which show that science isn’t always an exact science. That scientist are proving and disproving theories and assumptions all of the time. I like how Shubin broke down how our bones work. What the bones’ structure is made for; and that different skeletal tissues like cartilage are present for a reason. That are bones are made for pulling and compression while cartilage is made for movement and flexibility. So finally I got to the last section of the chapter and the big question of why bodies are here. I was disappointed to hear that his big explanation was that we were made to eat other things and protect ourselves from predators. I don’t believe in evolution or that humans were put on this earth to eat smaller creatures - that humans are the champions of some war with other species. Humans were put on this earth to do some better, to create something better, and to live great lives; not because it was a competition.