Слідуй за розбитим черепом: історія еволюції скелета
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If it seems to you that some organ appeared in the process of evolution out of nowhere, then it seems to you. Or dream. Nothing is taken from nowhere. The way you and I are built, your pet cat or the chirping bird outside the window, is the result of millions of years of evolution down to the smallest bone.
About all this in his book "Follow the broken skull. The history of skeletal evolution, "says scientist Leonid Gorobets. He scrupulously traces how the skeleton and bones have changed, explaining to dinosaurs, humans and even fish how evolution has worked all these years.
What is the sonic hedgehog gene, why do frogs "give up" ribs, and why does crocodile meat taste like chicken? Why are the eyes on the head and not, say, on the hands, and are the limbs really former swimmers? What speed fish can overtake a cheetah and which finger would have to be amputated if we moved like reptiles? Why do octopuses, despite their brains, are sometimes duller than bees, and what do sharks have in common with airplanes? The author of the book answers these and other questions, while explaining how the inner skeleton is steeper than the outer and how to distinguish a colleague from a reptilian.
Leonid Gorobets - Doctor of Biological Sciences, works in the paleontological department of the National Science and Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She teaches at the school Future - IWonder. He runs Stromat's blog, in which he talks about life, the universe and in general.
He is fascinated by the texts of German thinkers - Kant, Jung, Wittgenstein and Fromm. The most significant is the influence of Goethe, among whose many interests was anatomy and whose quotes dotted the pages of Leonid's book.
