Paleontology Chapter 9 Summary

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The eye is a very complex, very delicate organ of the body. Unfortunately, it’s delicacy makes it an extremely rare fossil record to find. A testament to this is that Neil, a skilled paleontologist, has only encountered one throughout his whole career. Whilst studying salamanders with his colleague, Gao Keqin, the latter managed to haggle an opportunity to see “one of the best salamander fossils of all time” ( Shubin 148). The eye serves as yet another bridge into our vast ancestory. Chapter Nine deals with the relationships between the molecules that gather light, the tissues we use to see, and the genes of past and present creatures. The molecule that gathers light changes shape and breaks into two parts. The first part is derived from Vitamin
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