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Asked by gabbie romany POTTERHEADS to Hannah, Joanna, Joe, Luis, Vincent on 16 Jun 2016.
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Hannah Grist answered on 16 Jun 2016:
I would love to fly, so hollow bones sound like a good idea to me! Although it would make it more difficult to walk, so with all these things, it depends what you want to be best at.
Actually, we use animal features all the time to make life easier, just not be changing ourselves. We make materials like fur for clothes, we use animal camouflage patterns to hide, and we make aircraft out of materials we’ve copied from nature. At the moment, scientists are trying to make fillings out of the same material the limpet tongues are made of! It’s called “biomimicry”: that we copy stuff from nature to help us out.
As to whether we could actually use them inside us, it is more difficult. Sometimes we actually do use animal features themselves: for example, if you break a bone and need to grow a new one, some doctors put coral inside you, because coral grows a good structure that helps your bones heal. Can you imagine being human but knowing you have coral as part of you? Pretty awesome!
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Vincent Keenan answered on 20 Jun 2016:
Hannah’s answer is great!
This can’t happen naturally! When evolution occurs there are some things that cannot be changed, this is called a trait reaching evolutionary fixation. For example, we all have two arms and two legs, this will not change! Our bones are not going to become hollow as things stand, nor are we likely to grow wings 🙁 -
Joe Nunez-Mino answered on 21 Jun 2016:
We are constantly learning from animals and that can make life easier. Bats for example have inspired engineering advances such as drones based on bat designs as well as medical advances such as Draculin from vampiure bats which helps to prevent blood clotting. As medical technology advances I have no doubt that things we cant even begin to imagine will help make life easier
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