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If you think that a certain organ has appeared in the process of evolution of the unknown, then you think. Or dreaming. Nothing new is taken. The way we are, your pet cat or the chirping bird outside your window, is the result of millions of years of evolution.

All this in his book «Follow the broken skull. History of skeletal evolution» is told by scientist Leonid Gorobets. He scrupulously goes through how the skeleton and bones were changing, explaining on dinosaurs, humans and even reefs how evolution has been working all these years.

What is the gene «snake-eating sleepyhead» why do toads «refuse» from the ribs, and why crocodile meat ’yas tastes like chicken? Why are the eyes placed on the head and not, say, on the hands, and why are the ends — the former swimmers? Which fish can overtake a cheetah in speed, and which finger would have to be amputated if we were moving like reptiles? Why octopus, despite their large brains, are often dumber than bjolis, and what is the difference between sharks and airplanes? The author of the book answers these and other questions, while explaining why the internal skeleton is cooler than the external, and how to distinguish a colleague from a reptiloid.