Why snakes are stand without legs?
Our most uninformed critic once claimed that since some snakes have small, non-functional bones where one would expect to find legs, that these snakes are a transitional form between eels and lizards. His argument is that these tiny bones evolved into fully functional legs, allowing the eel to move to dry land and evolve into a lizard. He thinks this is evidence of evolution in progress. It isn’t. The journal Science summarized one of the papers presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, held in Denver from January 6 – 10, 1999, as follows: How Snakes May Have Lost Their Legs For centuries, not just scientists but artists too have speculated about the limblessness of snakes. Michelangelo thought the loss occurred in the garden of Eden. Now, two developmental biologists offer a less fanciful explanation-one involving genes and the proteins they produce-rather than divine intervention. 1 The article goes on to explain how biologists have found
