Your Inner Fish Chapter 4 Book Review

The work demanded the naked eye notice the signs of bone in rock . This is a difficult feat According to Shubin , I 'd set off looking for fossils , systematically inspecting every rock I saw for a scrap of bone at the surface . At the end of the day .I had nothing , my empty bag a sign of how much I had to learn (Shubin 63

But even after days walking and looking with an expert fossil finder who gave advice , it took time for Shubin to see ' the bones in rock . For

days he asked questions and looked at the same rocks as the expert who found many and still came back empty-handed each evening . Then finally one day he discovered his first piece of bone , and it was only this discovery that made him actually understand what he was looking for The difference was this time I finally saw it , saw the distinction between rock and bone (Shubin 64-65 . After this , it was much easier for Shubin to discover fossilized bones , but still the search is tedious and difficult

Even after a haul of some promising rock during his first self-led expedition , Shubin was not hopeful . To his great surprise , he was hailed as a hero once the fossils were delicately revealed in the rock formation , and it was discovered that he had found a skeleton of a tiny ancient reptile , tritheledont . From the teeth and jaws on this fossil it could be derived that this was a breakthrough for the reptile as there was tooth-on-tooth occlusion

But once again , Shubin learned a greater lesson from this discovery that happened not in the field but in the lab where the rock had been carefully manipulated to reveal the fossil within . .I learned that some of the biggest discoveries...