Biohistory Jyournal, Summer, 2005
Research: Index >[Aiming for a new world] The evidence of evolution within you
Research
[Aiming for a new world]
The evidence of evolution within you
Masataka Okabe
    This year, we structured the first page of Research this year by “pressing the acupoint” for enjoying research on the front and carefully observing the content of research on the back. The first discussion is about the recycling that occurred in the body of vertebrates when they moved from the sea to the land.

    We land-based vertebrates (quadrupeds) are the descendants of fish that lived in the sea. It is thought that one problem requiring resolution when they made the transition to life on land was how to store the calcium they used to obtain from the seawater in their bodies and maintain it at the proper concentration.
    Anatomy and physiology investigate the composition of the bodies of living creatures. They teach us two facts that are the keys to resolving this problem.

Anatomy:Observing and describing the body's structure/The parathyroid gland is an organ the size of a rice grain. It is located in the neck next to the thyroid gland.  Physiology:The elements supporting the phenomenon of life are examined, with a focus on the body's functions./A certain concentration of calcium is maintained in the blood because the hormones secreted by the parathyroid gland dissolve the bones in the body, causing calcium to be emitted.

    Quadrupeds obtained a parathyroid gland. This solved the problem with calcium by secreting hormones. The bloodstream carries the hormones throughout the body, however, so that secretory organ should have no functional problems regardless of its location in the body. Why is the organ controlling calcium adjustment located in the neck?
What should we observe to link the facts of anatomy with the facts of physiology?

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The reason cells eat themselves
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