BIRD-HEARTED BOY
Doctors and medical students in Washington, U.S.A., are deeply interested In a 16-year-old youth, who is found to have the heart of bird. This is classed as an “evolutionary throw-back” or “reversion to type.” It Is stated that bird families develop the right aorta, leaving the left atrophied, while mammals, including human beings, develop the left aorta, leaving the right atrophied. In an examination of the youth it was found that his heart had 'developed along “bird” lines!
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 29
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80BIRD-HEARTED BOY Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 29
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