How the Snake Lost Its Legs the leopard/elephant/camel got its spots/trunk/hump". Held's ability to captivate the reader's imagination compares to the mischievousness of Kipling's pourquoi stories," but the reader, "is also encouraged to extrapolate from general principles by the constant reminder that animals use a conserved set of developmental genes to construct their bodies." Martin finds evo-devo fascinating, "inherently colorful and well placed to fulfill the dual goal of etiological myths: explaining origins and causes while also stirring imagination and awe. Overall, the latest opus by Lewis Held Jr. fits that niche nicely, and shines by its ability to span essential concepts and empirical work with
The Wind (poem) similar use is made of the letters R, S, D, and finally H. Dafydd took this poetic device, known as "cymeriad", from the older poetic form of "awdl", a kind of poem much used by court poets of the preceding centuries for poems of praise addressed to their patrons. He employed it in several of his "cywyddau". "The Wind" is cast in a form closely associated with Dafydd, the poem in which a messenger or "llatai", usually a bird or animal, is sent to the poet's lover. It is a good example of how Dafydd's works in this form can