Hacker News with Generative AI: Anatomy

Virtual human – a living cadaver – pushes boundaries of anatomical science(2018) (news.cuanschutz.edu)
When Victor Spitzer, PhD, director of the Center for Human Simulation at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, talks about his friend Susan Potter, he often describes her as “persistent.”
Virtual Reality, Medical Science, Anatomy, AI
31 points by the_red_mist 12 days ago | 12 comments
Let's talk about bird tongues (2014) (toughlittlebirds.com)
You don’t have to look at many birds to realize that they are very variable in appearance: hawks look different from hummingbirds, and both look different from peacocks. You can spend a lot of time looking at birds, though, before you realize that they are hiding a lot of variation inside their mouths: long tongues, short tongues, spiky tongues, curly tongues, forked tongues, frayed tongues, brush-like tongues.
Zoology, Birds, Anatomy, Biology
71 points by quuxplusone 103 days ago | 6 comments
Why I hate the index finger (1980) (nlm.nih.gov)
As everyone knows, the index finger is a great precision performer.
Humor, Opinion, Anatomy
258 points by consumer451 158 days ago | 99 comments
Do Penguins Have Knees? (2019) (penguinsinternational.org)
Penguins, Biology, Animal Science, Anatomy
123 points by not_a_boat 271 days ago | 35 comments
What it's like to dissect a cadaver (2022) (alok.github.io)
Anatomy, Medical School, Education
10 points by OuterVale 278 days ago | 5 comments
Recently increased prevalence of human forearm median artery: Microevolution (wiley.com)
Microevolution, Biology, Anatomy, Health
78 points by bookofjoe 335 days ago | 33 comments