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Period12th（Term; from Oct. 2021）
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Research InterestsAll about tail (Shippology), Morphology, Biology
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Research TopicEstablishment of “Shippology”: a biological and cultural-anthropological approach towards tail loss
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Host DepartmentThe Kyoto University Museum
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Previous AffiliationGraduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University
When you hear the word “tail,” what do you think of? You might imagine your pets, an animals’ tail in a zoo, or anything else you can imagine. Many creatures use tails of various shapes and sizes in a variety of ways. So, by looking at the shape of their tails, we can learn about their adaptation and evolution. But unfortunately, we don’t have tails. It’s a wonder, isn’t it? This is my research theme. I believe that our tail loss is the key to understanding how we became “human”. The word “human” is a simple word, but it has two meanings: “human” as a biological species and “human” with humanity. To understand the origins of both, we need both a biological approach to understand the morphological diversity of organisms and the process of their formation, and a humanistic approach to understand the evolution of human cognition. I would like to disseminate “Shippology,” which considers the tail loss from the different perspectives of humanities and biology.