How the Snake Lost Its Legs the butterfly, the snake, and the cheetah. Each consists of three to eight sections named in the style of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories", with titles like "How the butterfly got its spots" or "How the snake elongated its body", though a couple of sections use "Why?" rather than "How?", as in "Why the fly twirls his penis" (it rotates during embryonic development under the control of different genes). In these chapters, Held explains the mechanics of evolutionary developmental biology, complete with accounts of what genes such as hox, hedgehog, and engrailed do to shape bodies. The third part is
Kali the Mother (poem) In the poem, he shows how the whole universe is a stage for the goddess's terrible and frenzied dance. This poem influenced Indian freedom fighters Subhas Chandra Bose and Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo used it as a basis for his "Bhawani Mandir" manifesto. He said about the poem: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan said that the poem gives "articulation and voice to that eternal spirit of India". Kali the Mother (poem) Kali the Mother is a poem written by Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda. Vivekananda wrote the poem in 1898 when he was staying in Kashmir, on a houseboat, on Dal Lake in Srinagar.