Your Inner Fish Analysis

In Neil Shubins’ “Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”, he takes the audience on the journey of the discovery and history of how different organisms and adaptations have converged to form a relationship between fish and tetrapods. Shubins first relates the evolutionary fact that humans and other forms of “tetrapods’ major body systems have developed from fish and sharks” (20), through his time on the field as a paleontologist. He describes his multiple experiences of planning, preparing, excavating, and analyzing not only the fossils found by his team, but also where and when in the rock these artifacts were found. His research and expenditures led to discoveries of bones and fossils that he would …show more content…
“Your inner fish” is something that you should be proud of, the specific journeys of genes and mutations of ancestors led to you being able to just ‘be’, every trait about you was not an accident but a predetermined idea that occurred on the storyline of evolution. When Shubin describes one’s inner fish, it is admiration of billions of years in the making, meaning, every part of each organisms body was meant to happen in an ever changing world, and to never feel small because a piece of the world along with its and your history lie within every cell of each creature. “Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body” explains why and how evolution has become a fact of our everyday lives, and to not acknowledge that everything we are comes from our pasts would be futile. This book allows for a better comprehension on the basis of our bodies and how they work internally. By understanding how and why we work, we are better able to understand where we stem from, while also understanding how the first creatures to walk the Earth were able to achieve such a tumultuous feat as to just