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Connor Sisk Article Evaluation/ Intro to Biology: Chemical and Cellular basis Article Title: Deformity Article Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformity

The article I will be evaluating today focuses on deformities. It starts off with strong information, going into the many different causes of deformities, specifically humans. All the potential causes of deformites that the author lists are correct, but they immediatly jump to a content gap stating that most deformities cause the fetes or child to pass away. The author does not provide a scale of the different types and severities of deformities, only listing particularly fatal ones. Nor are there any statistics let alone sources to back the information. This could lead readers to beleive that all deformities are fatal, which they clearly are not. The author then goes into another content gap, this one more stretched than the other stating that deformities are sole reason for humans belief of mythological creatures. The author directly links the belief in mermaids to be caused by the symptoms of sirenomelia, which is a rare condition in which a fetes' legs are fused together. Although this deformity may have helped contribute to humans belief in the mythical creature, specifically mermaids it is surely not the only contribution. The article is cut short and ends there. It is obvious that the author is only using information to add to his opinion that deformities essentially caused humans throughout history to believe in mythology, and mythological creatures.