Hello *cough cough cough ugh I'm dying sneeze cough grr*
I took a break from vlogs because I've been sick recently so I sound and look like a dying whale.
So basically for this class we got to go to the museum (mini-not-so-cool-but-still-exciting-field-trip!)
For homework the night before we read a few chapters of Survival of the Sickest and learned about the arm bone structure that connects us to the rest of the natural world. It's described as one bone-two bones-blobs-digits, and it can be found from everything from lizards to birds to us! It has a profound meaning in evolution and our relationships to the natural world (very transcendentalist!). We got to look at Tiktaalik, who is one of the earliest examples of this arm structure, as he was literally a fish with arms (and he was pretty cute too!). He had characteristics of fish in his eyes, ribs, tail, and fin-ish appendages, but he also had the characteristics of land-dwelling creatures in his arms (who are geared for push-ups), lungs, and neck. He was a cool fish and he is such an insight to evolution! He opened up our evolutionary unit and was a great piece of history to look at.
Alright! Bye guys, talk to you more about evolution next time!
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