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Was it, therefore, an insect? Evolution gave me the answer: if reptiles, via the Archaeopteryx, could become birds, annelid worms, so I deduced, could develop into insects. The notches between the worm’s metameres clearly were of the same nature. My father had explained that the word “insect” was derived from the notches, the “incisions” between the segments. Even before that I had struggled with the problem whether or not an earthworm was in insect. When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Bölsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx. At the same time my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child. From a neighbour, I got a one day old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. In the process of getting some, I discovered imprinting and was imprinted myself. From then on, I yearned to become a wild goose and, on realizing that this was impossible, I desperately wanted to have one and, when this also proved impossible, I settled for having domestic ducks. This success alone might have sufficed to determine my further career however, another important factor came in: Selma Lagerlöf‘s Nils Holgersson was read to me – I could not yet read at that time. When my father brought me, from a walk in the Vienna Woods, a spotted salamander, with the injunction to liberate it after 5 days, my luck was in: the salamander gave birth to 44 larvae of which we, that is to say Resi, reared 12 to metamorphosis. She possessed a “green thumb” for rearing animals. My nurse, Resi Führinger, was the daughter of an old patrician peasant family. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals. I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man’s scientific and philosophical development. Share via Email: Konrad Lorenz – Biographical Share this content via Email.
Share on LinkedIn: Konrad Lorenz – Biographical Share this content on LinkedIn.Tweet: Konrad Lorenz – Biographical Share this content on Twitter.Share on Facebook: Konrad Lorenz – Biographical Share this content on Facebook.Peer-reviewed journals have published his articles on shoulder surgery and, as a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the New York State Medical Society, and a Diplomate of the American Board of OrthopaedicSurgery, he has presented his research findings at local and national meetings. Gruson is actively engaged with resident and medical student education. Following his residency training in orthopedic surgery at the New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, he completed a fellowship in shoulder surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.ĭr. Gruson attended the New York University School of Medicine, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. As an Associate Professor at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine, his research focuses on the outcomes of rotator cuff surgery, the complications of shoulder arthroscopy, and the outcomes of total shoulder replacement.Īfter graduating summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Gruson, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with expertise in shoulder surgery and a clinical focus on arthroscopic and open rotator cuff repair, arthroscopic instability repair, open coracoid transfer for recurrent shoulder instability, and conventional and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty.