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[edit] 4 ocular vision ?
May be 2 faces linked to a healthy brain? Do we known any adult similar case experimenting some sort of 4 ocular vision ? From cerebral plasticity, this should definitely be possible, but would the brain manage the visual data separately or merge into 4 meaningful views of the same object(s)? May be extreme eyes are to far apart to have some of their visual field to merge? Even so, it's about 270 degrees! Also wondering if the visual system is fully operating, if it's not going to be a bit too much stimulation for the brain! Actually it could probably adapt easily either by growing more axons or if it's really too much by decreasing the quantity of data taken from each visual path.
A BBC interesting article : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7340091.stm
[edit] Picture please
Could someone please put a pic up here? thankx. Ilikefood 00:38, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
There's been some obvious vandalism to the front page, but I don't know what the original information was. Could someone clean that up? 147.226.220.90 (talk) 00:13, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
If you mean the "sonic hedgehog protein" bit, a google on "ssh protein" seems to confirm it's legit. who knew? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.99.234.144 (talk) 16:07, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Sonic the Hedgehog
Could someone provide another reference on the Sonic the Hedgehog protein. That REALLY sounds like someone is making stuff up and waiting to see how long it takes for someone to catch it. I didn't remove it because it did have one reference but I'd like to see another. Thanks! 146.145.184.198 (talk) 14:57, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
It's real. No one now can help the fact that a researcher chose an irreverent name for the protein, and it's not the most extreme example by any means. For verification you can follow the first "Sonic Hedgehog" link in the second paragraph to its Wikipage; see references #3-8 in the article (for reference #4 you need a subscription to Nature, but the rest are free full text); see the second, third, fourth and fifth external links in the article; do a Google search for shh protein; and do a PubMed search (www.pubmed.gov) for Sonic Hedgehog. For the longer research articles, if it's not visible right up front, a text search may be the fastest way to verify that it's there. Barbi6 (talk) 21:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
We should also be clear that the name of the protein is *sonic hedgehog* (SHH) and the name of the character is *Sonic the Hedgehog* - the names are not exactly identical. Barbi6 (talk) 21:18, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Human
Is there a source for any list of humans w/ Dpp? -66.109.248.114 (talk) 23:17, 11 April 2008 (UTC).
