2012年11月6日 · She uses the example of Slijper's two-legged goat to show how a congenital defect in the front legs led to the goat learning to walk and run on its hind legs, resulting in remarkable changes in muscle and bone structure. West-Eberhard also suggests that most major changes in form are caused by changes in timing, rather than mutations in genes.

2004年4月16日 · Slijper's Goat or What a grotesque little beast Sometimes during the 1920's, a darling little baby goat was born without forelimbs. It barely even had stubs. But we all know how inventive and irrepressible goats are, so it comes as no surprise

2019年6月13日 · John Maynard Smith discussed Slijper’s goat in his popular science book The Theory of Evolution (Penguin Books, 1958; Canto Edition published by Cambridge University Press, 1993).

We begin with a story about a cute little goat born in the late 1930s in the Netherlands, and spiral into a wide ranging discussion about evolution, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, and nature vs nurture!

2020年1月7日 · The Undisputed Facts Relating to Slijper’s Goat • Locomotion is a crucial function in animals, normally constructed soon after birth • The construction of normal quadrupedal gait in the goat was severely perturbed due to the birth defect • The organism of the goat compensated for this perturbation by spontaneously constructing the ...

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2015年12月27日 · Lessons from Slijper’s Goat: On the Convergence of Classical and Modern Biology James Barham University of Notre Dame and Institute for the Study of Nature June 12, 2008… × Log in Upload File

2025年1月2日 · At the fraught start of an apocalyptic new year, we find a slight, weird sliver of hope in the improbable survival of Sweden's Gävle Goat, a massive straw goat that sanguine residents have built each Christmas since 1966 but that malevolent humanity has, most years, implacably destroyed.

2024年12月12日 · Using de novo phased long-read assemblies of eight representative goat breeds, we constructed a graph-based pangenome of goats (Capra hircus) and discovered 113-Mb autosomal novel sequences.