A comparison of hand and foot bones from Goldman. Interestingly, the big toe and thumb both seem to have lost one bone compared to the other fingers / toes. I wonder whether that happened as an evolutionary convergence, or whether they’re controlled by the same homeobox or something and were both lost at the same time.
Did I get that word right? Huh, homeobox is the right concept. But, strangely, I remember last thinking about it in a place which I thought was a dream place – a road leading to a bookstore – but now I recall several visits to that bookstore, including a visit to a nearby mall to eat. Huh. I wonder if that was real.
Drawing (and reminiscing) every day.
-the Centaur
