no one asked me to do a specbio post on garleans but im gonna!!!! the fact that no one asked means no one can stop me!!
garlean people and hyur share a very recent common ancestor, but it’s far enough back that they should be considered distinct from like a different kind of hyur like midland or highland. They kind of adopted their place name into their “species name”. the fact is they used to be called something else, but both internally rejected the use of anything but a locator and externally so deeply associated themselves with garlemald that any notion of the name is gone. and they weren’t incredibly populous to begin with, so no one had a chance to set something else.
anyways! What’s this thing about
THIS is a small organ that has a hard keratin protrusion and is very loosely connected to the skull. most notably this eye is used for spatial recognition. The external part of it is rumored as being used for distance recognition, being able to sense better how far away something is, but Lucia asserts it doesn’t matter so. It might not matter. But the internal organ is used for proprioception! Very similar to the otolithic organ in your ears! While that will tell you if you’re accelerating or which way you’re moving, the “third eye” addition to the vestibular system tells you which way is down. The heavier calcium deposit on the inside of the organ always orients the brain to where down is and where it is in reference to you and where you’re angled in reference to Down, as long as you’re not shaking your head around like crazy to disorient yourself. If you’ve ever been on a big rollercoaster and closed your eyes the whole time, you’ll notice you can sort of tell when you’re on the loop because of the pull of gravity, but it’s hard to tell exactly where you are on the loop or if you’re tilting. Someone with the Garlean third eye will know exactly where they are in the loop, and also not get dizzy, hardly ever! Even if their ears are sending confused signals to the brain, the more rigid horn organ says no we’re fine we’re standing.
so where did this come from. Not a lot of documentation remains on the subject — some controversial studies claim it evolved for swimming. You’ll notice I called it a horn earlier, though it’s very very uncommon to actually see it grow into horn shape anymore. in 95% of people it stays a little nub shape, but sometimes can grow out or up in odd ways and maintenance is as important as cutting your nails. Some very few people out in the world are able and willing to let it grow out, where it kind of turns into a unicorn type thing? In even fewer people, funny enough more people who were cured of tempering than found naturally, a fasciation disease causes it to constantly grow in many directions, causing possible balance issues and nausea if left untreated (or if it curves back into your head that’s not good!), but it’s not a problem if you keep on top of it. If it’s left to grow it will eventually become vascularized, just like it is in the standard eye shape.
bullying jullus. Unfortunately, secret stripes are a trait that did not follow them 😔 stripeless. (maidenless voice) stripeless
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1908 MECHNIKOV, ELIE
FOR THEIR WORK ON IMMUNITY
1908 EHRLICH, PAUL
FOR THEIR WORK ON IMMUNITY
1914 BARANY, ROBERT
FOR HIS WORK ON THE PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF THE VESTIBULAR APPARATUS
1922 MEYERHOF, OTTO FRITZ
FOR HIS DISCOVERY OF THE FIXED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONSUMPTION OF
OXYGEN AND THE METABOLISM OF LACTIC ACID IN THE MUSCLE
1930 LANDSTEINER, KARL
FOR HIS DISCOVERY OF HUMAN BLOOD GROUPS
1936 LOEWI, OTTO
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES RELATING TO CHEMICAL TRANSMISSION OF NERVE IMPULSES
1944 ERLANGER, JOSEPH
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES RELATING TO THE HIGHLY DIFFERENTIATED FUNCTIONS OF SINGLE NERVE FIBRES
1945 CHAIN, ERNST BORIS
FOR THE DISCOVERY OF PENICILLIN AND ITS CURATIVE EFFECT IN VARIOUS INFECTIOUS DISEASES
1946 MULLER, HERMANN J.
FOR THE DISCOVERY OF THE PRODUCTION OF MUTATIONS BY MEANS OF X-RAY IRRADIATION
1947 CORI, GERTY THERESA, RADNITZ
FOR THEIR DISCOVERY OF THE COURSE OF THE CATALYTIC CONVERSION OF GLYCOGEN
1950 REICHSTEIN, TADEUS
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES RELATING TO THE HORMONES OF THE ADRENAL CORTEX, THEIR STRUCTURE AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
1952 WAKSMAN, SELMAN A.
FOR HIS DISCOVERY OF STREPTOMYCIN, THE FIRST ANTIBIOTIC EFFECTIVE AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS
1953 LIPMANN, FRITZ ALBERT
FOR HIS DISCOVERY OF CO-ENZYME A AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR INTERMEDIARY METABOLISM
1953 KREBS, HANS ADOLF
FOR HIS DISCOVERY OF THE CITRIC ACID CYCLE
1958 LEDERBERG, JOSHUA
FOR HIS DISCOVERIES CONCERNING GENETIC RECOMBINATION AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE GENETIC MATERIAL OF BACTERIA
1959 KORNBERG, ARTHUR
FOR THEIR DISCOVERY OF THE MECHANISMS IN THE BIOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS OF RIBONUCLEIC ACID AND DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID
1964 BLOCH, KONRAD
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE MECHANISM AND REGULATION OF THE CHOLESTEROL AND FATTY ACID METABOLISM
1965 JACOB, FRANCOIS
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING GENETIC CONTROL OF ENZYME AND VIRUS SYNTHESIS
1965 LWOFF, ANDRE
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING GENETIC CONTROL OF ENZYME AND VIRUS SYNTHESIS
1967 WALD, GEORGE
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE PRIMARY PHYSIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL VISUAL PROCESSES IN THE EYE
1968 NIRENBERG, MARSHALL W.
FOR THEIR INTERPRETATION OF THE GENETIC CODE AND ITS FUNCTION IN PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
1969 LURIA, SALVADOR E.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE REPLICATION MECHANISM AND THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF VIRUSES
1970 KATZ, BERNARD
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE HUMORAL TRANSMITTERS IN THE NERVE TERMINALS AND THE MECHANISM
FOR THEIR STORAGE, RELEASE AND INACTIVATION
1970 AXELROD, JULIUS
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE HUMORAL TRANSMITTERS IN THE NERVE TERMINALS AND THE MECHANISM
FOR THEIR STORAGE, RELEASE AND INACTIVATION
1972 EDELMAN, GERALD M.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE CHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF ANTIBODIES
1975 TEMIN, HOWARD M.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN TUMOR VIRUSES AND THE GENETIC MATERIAL OF THE CELL
1975 BALTIMORE, DAVID
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN TUMOR VIRUSES AND THE GENETIC MATERIAL OF THE CELL
1976 BLUMBERG, BARUCH S.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING NEW MECHANISMS FOR THE ORIGIN AND DISSEMINATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
1977 YALOW, ROSALYN
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RADIOIMMUNOASSAYS OF PEPTIDE HORMONES
1977 SCHALLY, ANDREW V.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE PEPTIDE HORMONE PRODUCTION OF THE BRAIN
1978 NATHANS, DANIEL
FOR THE DISCOVERY OF RESTRICTION ENZYMES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO PROBLEMS OF MOLECULAR GENETICS
1980 BENACERRAF, BARUJ
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING GENETICALLY DETERMINED STRUCTURES ON THE CELL SURFACE THAT
REGULATE IMMUNOLOGICAL REACTIONS
1984 MILSTEIN, CESAR
FOR THEORIES CONCERNING THE SPECIFICITY IN DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE
PRINCIPLE FOR PRODUCTION OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES
1985 BROWN, MICHAEL S.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE REGULATION OF CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM
1985 GOLDSTEIN, JOSEPH L.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE REGULATION OF CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM
1986 COHEN, STANLEY
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES OF GROWTH FACTORS
1986 LEVI-MONTALCINI, RITA
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES OF GROWTH FACTORS
1988 ELION, GERTRUDE B.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES OF IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES FOR DRUG TREATMENT
1989 VARMUS, HAROLD E.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERY OF THE CELLULAR ORIGIN OF RETROVIRAL ONCOGENES
1994 RODBELL, MARTIN
FOR THEIR DISCOVERY OF G-PROTEINS AND THE ROLE OF THESE PROTEINS IN SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN CELLS
1994 GILMAN, ALFRED G.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERY OF G-PROTEINS AND THE ROLE OF THESE PROTEINS IN SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN CELLS
1997 PRUSINER, STANLEY B.
FOR HIS DISCOVERY OF PRIONS - A NEW BIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE OF INFECTION
1998 FURCHGOTT, ROBERT F.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING NITRIC OXIDE AS A SIGNALING MOLECULE IN THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
2000 GREENGARD, PAUL
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
2000 KANDEL, ERIC R.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
2002 BRENNER, SYDNEY
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING GENETIC REGULATION OF ORGAN DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH
2002 HORVITZ, H. ROBERT
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING GENETIC REGULATION OF ORGAN DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH
2004 AXEL, RICHARD
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES OF ODORANT RECEPTORS AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OLFACTORY SYSTEM
2006 FIRE, ANDREW Z.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERY OF RNA INTERFERENCE - GENE SILENCING BY DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA
2011 STEINMAN, RALPH M.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE ACTIVATION OF INNATE IMMUNITY
2011 BEUTLER, BRUCE A.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE ACTIVATION OF INNATE IMMUNITY
2013 SCHEKMAN, RANDY W.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES OF MACHINERY REGULATING VESICLE TRAFFIC, A MAJOR TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN OUR CELLS
2013 ROTHMAN, JAMES E.
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES OF MACHINERY REGULATING VESICLE TRAFFIC, A MAJOR TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN OUR CELLS
2017 ROSBASH, MICHAEL
FOR THEIR DISCOVERIES OF MOLECULAR MECHANISMS CONTROLLING THE CIRCADIAN RHYTHM
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