A PASSAGE TO INDIA

'A TRAVELER IS BUT A PILGRIM ON A QUEST'

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

114. DARWIN's THEORY



I'm a huge fan of National Geographic mags. Their TV channel and Animal Planet channel came much later when cable TV arrived in Singapore - and I thoroughly enjoy David Attenborough's documentaries...


 

'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved'......Charles Darwin




















This 'snake girl' sheds her skin every 3 months...







The nose as a beak....















Webbed feet








Mermaid girls, where their legs were fused, their feet opening up like a fish's tail...I followed Shiloh's (below) life story on Nat Geo till her death at 10, about 2 years ago...

















The Tree Man of Indonesia - another interesting life story on Nat Geo. Doctors called them warts, look closely at these warts, they are like the bark of an old tree... 



Who mimics who here?






 
 
















a human embryo at 6 weeks can be one of any mammal....

..in DNA sequencing,  the Human Genome Project found that the human mammal share almost 100% similar genes to most animal species...