1.

大腦為什麼在發育時會自動的發生分區﹖如果說什麼﹕管理運動,感覺,
記憶等﹐我大概已猜到其一二。但最大的問題是﹐就連﹐記憶的內容都
有分區現象﹗其例子﹐如﹕大腦左,右半球的感性與理性。
2. 左撇子。假若父母皆是左撇子﹐孩子會不會是右撇子。答案是﹐多數孩
子會是左撇子。但仍有右撇子的孩子。
3. 會不會和遺傳有關﹖
  
兩個半球中, 有一個是顯性腦. 通常右撇子, 顯性腦在左半球. 把某個半球
發育成顯性腦, 與基因是否有關呢? 自己想.

人類的性別與基因幾乎百分之百相關. 但是鱷魚性別, 與基因幾乎無關. 故

應該用各種 "屬性" 的 "隸屬度" 來表示, 才比較符合實在的生物現象. 如
遺傳性佔多少比率, 某種環境的因素 (如溫度) 佔多少比率.

1. 若是一名以接近光速運動的人和一名停止不動的人正在進行聯絡的話,兩邊的時
間這麼比呢?當然是接近光速的一方, 其內在的時鐘會跑的比較慢囉!

這是一種時緩效應, 你可以把它當作所有的反應都慢下來了. 人體的生理變化、

腦中思想、各種計時器、粒子衰變、化學反應、物理反應....等等, 所有的變
化, 全都慢下來了.

傻子!何謂接近光速的移動?是對於某 1 慣性系的速度差是接近光速吧!但是,你
不要忘記你認為是接近光速的也是一個慣性系吧!在他的觀點中,你才是以光速
的移動呢!

第 1，相對運動中兩者的時鐘同樣有理,所以兩者在不改變速度下(如果改變已
經不是慣性系了)雙方都可以認為對方的時間慢了!
你所說的情形, 狹義相對論來說應該是不成立的吧? 畢竟狹義相對論和廣義相
對論不是相矛盾的說法嗎?
那....請問一下 既然其中一個人的時間過的比較快... 那另一個比較慢的人是不
是就變成在跟未來的人通話了

2. IQ 是用其特殊方式計算﹐不會應年齡的差出現差﹐比如 IQ=100 的一個大

人和小孩,都屬正常﹐但所懂的不會一樣多

在比例上,IQ 高的男>IQ 高的女

男 15000:1 是絕頂天才(>150)/蠢才(...)
女 10000:1 是絕頂天才(>150)/蠢才(...)

男的 IQ 分佈較廣,女的窄
因此男有較多天才和蠢才
但總平均來說,男女 IQ 一樣

不能 那要看他ㄉ腦袋情況

Flying fins
Question
Why do flying fish fly? Is it to escape predators, or to catch flying insects, or as a
more efficient means of getting around than swimming? Is there some other entirely
different reason?

Julyan Cartwright , Palma de Mallorca Spain

Answers

The usual explanation for flight in flying fish is to escape predation, particularly from
fast-swimming dolphinfish. They do not fly to catch insects-flying fish are largely
oceanic and flying insects are rare over the open sea. It has been suggested that their
flights (which are actually glides because flying fish do not flap their "wings") are
energy-saving but this is unlikely as the vigorous takeoffs are produced by white,
anaerobic muscle beating the tail at a rate of 50 to 70 beats per second and this must
be very expensive in terms of energy use.
Flying fish have corneas with flat facets, so they can see in both air and water. There
is some evidence to suggest that they can choose landing sites. This might allow them
to fly from food-poor to food-rich areas, but convincing evidence of this is lacking.
There seems to be little doubt that escape from predators is the major purpose of
flight, and this is why so many fly away from ships and boats which they perceive to
be threatening.

John Davenport , University Marine Biological Station Millport

Strictly speaking, the flying fish does not fly, it indulges in a form of powered gliding,
using its tail fins to propel it clear of the water. It sustains its leap with high-speed
flapping of its oversized pectoral fins for distances of up to 100 metres. The sole
purpose of this activity seems to be to escape predators, and if one can manage to tear
ones eyes away from the magic of the unexpected and iridescent appearance of a
flying fish, a somewhat more substantial fish can often be seen following its flight
path just below the surface.
Tim Hart , La Gomera Canary Islands  
 
I have seen whole schools of flying fish become airborne as they try to escape tuna
which are hunting them, and minutes later have seen the school of tuna attempt
similar aerobatics as dolphins move in for their supper of tuna steaks.

A morning stroll around the decks of an ocean-going yacht will often provide a frying
pan-full of flying fish for breakfast. Presumably they are instinctively trying to leap
over a predator (in this case the boat) but as they don't seem to be able to see too well
at night they land on the deck. They rarely land on board during the day. Most
alarmingly they will land in the cockpit, and even hit the stargazing helmsman on the
side of the head.

Don Smith , Cambridge

Bird's-eye hue
 
Question
On recent birdwatching outings I have been struck by variations in eye colour. Tufted
ducks have golden- yellow eyes, while those of the coot are ruby-red. The eyes of the
shag are emerald green, yet those of the gannet are pale blue-grey. All these birds find
their food by diving. What effect, if any, might eye coloration have on their ability to
see under water, and why the variation?
By e-mail, no name or address supplied ,
 
Answer

When considering eye colour in birds, it is important to make the distinction between
the eye wattle the coloured skin around the eye which is an ornamental and
sometimes behaviourally functional feature, and the iris colour.
The iris is a muscular organ whose function is to control the size of the aperture, or
pupil, of the eye to regulate the amount of light that is made available to the retina.
This is why our pupils contract when we encounter bright sunshine.
In all other animals, this muscle is smooth tissue and therefore not under voluntary
control of the owner of the eye. But in birds and reptiles, it is composed of striated
muscle tissue and therefore can be voluntarily contracted. This results in the ability to
close or open the aperture of the pupil as required and, more meaningfully in relation
to the above question, expose or reduce the amount of iris colour itself.
The iris, as mentioned above, controls the amount of light that enters the eye, so it is
no surprise that in cross section you will find a heavily pigmented epithelial tissue
layer on the retinal side to prevent any light penetrating through the iris itself. The
tissue layer, or stroma, in front of the pigmented epithelium contain various elements
and free floating cells and is bound to a non-pigmented, or transparent, epithelium on
the front of the iris.

Between these layers of epithelium, natural selection is allowed to do its work. Pied
starlings are cooperative breeders: various generations of individual birds make up a
communally roosting flock. Birds aged less than a year have black iris colours. As
they age, they develop a white intrusion from the periphery of the iris, until they reach
maturity and the irises are bright white.

In 1991, my colleague A. J. F. K. Craig and I studied the histological development of

the eye colour as the birds matured and reported our findings in The Auk (vol 108).
Hard reflective crystalline particles were deposited into the birds' stroma, thereby
giving the birds a progressively whitening eye without compromising the function of
their irises. We observed that breeding pairs often "flashed" their eye colour to assert
dominance over juvenile birds. They did this by contracting the appropriate iris
muscles and exposing more of the white reflection. The more reflecting pigment they
showed, the more assertive they were.

I suspect that this is an adaptation that is probably quite common in birds and, much
like plumage, it is subject to natural selection. It also explains the wide variety and
significance of eye colour that is found in birds.

Neville Sweijd , Swakopmund, Namibia