hello everyone,

a book review i wrote was published today in SCIENCE magazine about the new book, HERE BE DRAGONS. i thought you might be interested to read my review of this book;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/06/here_be_dragons.php

i am happy to email the PDF to you if it's stuck behind the SCIENCE paywall.

i also found fascinating a video that documents a necropsy (an autopsy on an animal other than a human) carried out in a classroom on a giraffe. In this video, we follow the pathway of the recurrent (inferior) laryngeal nerve, an important nerve that is a branch of the Vagus nerve (tenth cranial nerve). The tremendously long and circuitous pathway of this nerve is logical when one views it in terms of evolution;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/06/the_laryngeal_nerve_of_the_gir.php

cheers,
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