I live in a whole different country, so no. But what I do have is Walking with Monsters. By which I mean that I'm watching it now. When I said I wanted to watch it, I guess what I really meant was "I want to walk to the other end of the house and pull it off the bookshelf in the theatre room".
How crassly US-centric of me. I sort of thought they were everywhere that had the tubes filled with cats and, likely, pornography.
Still, I would like to walk to my bookcase and watch awesome stuff. I don't have nearly enough documentaries on hand. I just depend on the kindness of internets.
This book concerns the science of evolutionary development (evo devo), or how regulatory genes control the growth of a creature (including us)
SOLD!
I mean, I would like to purchase this book and read the heck out of it.
How crassly US-centric of me. I sort of thought they were everywhere that had the tubes filled with cats and, likely, pornography.
We have a local version, Quickflix, which I'm currently using to go through The Good Wife, Parks and Recreation and Waking the Dead. (Taking Biyi through the first two.) I don't use streaming though, just Luddite-friendly disc rental.
Monsters have now finished their walkies. And I should recommend another book.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
is specifically about evo devo, but another book that has a lot to say on the subject - and I think puts it into a more interesting context - is Neil Shubin's
Your Inner Fish.
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The story behind it: the author, Neil Shubin, is one of the discoverers of
Tiktaalik.
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This is a very important transitional fossil - a lobe-finned fish from the time when tetrapods - land vertebrates - were first evolving. If not our own direct ancestor, it's a close offshoot.
Shubin used this as a starting point to discuss the evolution of the various components of our (tetrapod) bodies, and specifically what we can learn from the comparison to Tiktaalik. It's a very effective narrative structure, and when talking about how bodies developed, necessarily pulls in a lot of good information on evo devo.
Isn't today erikaj's birthday? Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, erika!!!
I missed Trudy! Of all the nights to actually sleep.
And I should recommend another book. Endless Forms Most Beautiful is specifically about evo devo, but another book that has a lot to say on the subject - and I think puts it into a more interesting context - is Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish.
I have that book! I liked it, but it wasn't as great a read as I expected.
Happy birthday, erika!
