Word: hanken
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Professor of Biology James Hanken used to tell a story about rabbits in his organismic biology course that has gained new significance in recent years...
...Until the teaching schedule for the team-taught Biological Sciences 51, “Integrative Biology of Organisms,” changed this year, Hanken would talk about rabbits’ digestive systems in lecture. The animals can absorb the nutrients from plant matter only in the small intestine, but food is digested in a part of the gut that’s farther “downstream.” So how do plant nutrients finally get into the rabbit’s bloodstream having already passed through the small intestine undigested...
...They secrete these things through their anus, eat them,” and pass them back through the small intestine, Hanken explains...
...You’ve got to hand it to the creationists,” Hanken says. “They have been much more effective at packaging their ideas in ways that are very seductive and very palatable to the average American...
...Werby] is extremely well regarded at the AMNH, which is why it is very sad to lose her,” Hanken said...