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1st Article Analysis
1st Article Analysis
Shubin classifies: Fish Amphibian Reptile Early Mammal Human this concept
is similar to the vertebrate classes that was covered in Chapter 5 of our lecture.
Therapsids: The transition from reptiles to mammals that was also covered in Chapter
5 of our lecture. He discovered this by tracing the results from the expansion of
embryos. He found out what become jawbones in reptiles become the middle ear
bones in a mammals.
3. Your Critique:
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The author clearly states the main point of our reptilian backgrounds. Its easy to
understand the material because he explained in details of concepts - one by one
such as reptiles egg, teeth, hair and ear bones.
The documentarys greatest strengths is that Shubin introduced us the data that
supported the evolution in a subtle way but effective and easy to understand even if
youre not specialist.