How is what Donna Bozzone thinks about this topic different from what many other people think?

Question

Donna Bozzone’s opinion is different from other people in the world because ______________________________________________________.
Find two pieces of evidence to support the idea above.

"The artist Leonardo da
Vinci, perhaps best
is as long as what you would expect to see in a man who is 6 feet 8 inches
known for painting the tall. His legs are the length typical of
Mona Lisa, produced
a drawing called the
Vitruvian Man. In it, da Vinci depicted his idea of the perfectly sized and proportioned male body. But is this really what a perfect body looks like? And if it's perfect, does that make every other type of body flawed? Or maybe those are the wrong questions and the idea of a "perfect" body is actually what's flawed.
a man who is 5 feet 10 inches. Phelps has long arms too. Like the Vitruvian Man, most people have a wingspan roughly the same as their height.
Phelps' wingspan is 6 feet 7 inches, three inches longer than his height.
His ankles are (reportedly) double jointed, and thus extremely flexible. And his feet are big-he wears size 14 shoes. So Phelps' legs act like flippers when he swims.
No one could argue that Phelps has a perfect body in da Vinci's sense. But is it correct to say it is imperfect? What does "perfection" mean when we are talking about human biology? Does it even exist?" "the animal kingdom. Imagine a population of brown rabbits and white rabbits in a snowy field. Under these conditions, predators are less likely to see and catch the white rabbits. In a summertime field-all brown soil and green and golden plants-white rabbits are more visible and easier to catch. Neither white nor brown fur is perfect for
rabbit survival. Rabbits need different"
An Imperfect Man Consider Michael Phelps. The winningest swimmer of all time, Phelps earned 28 Olympic medals. His body does not look like the Vitruvian Man. In fact, Phelps' body is quite unusual. The best swimmers tend to have long torsos and short legs. Phelps is 6 feet 4 inches, but his torso
What Is Physical Perfection?
Maybe perfection has more to do with how a body works than how it looks. How we function actually depends upon how well we fit into our environment.
Here's an example from bodies for different seasons. And
in fact, in some types of rabbits, fur
color changes with the seasons. Like
rabbits, all organisms, including
people, adapt to their environments.
The process of evolution selects for
the survival of organisms that thrive
in their specific environments. But
evolution isn’t engineering. Often,
imperfections that don’t affect
survival too badly get passed on
through the generations."
prevent people from
reproducing, though.
Amazingly, most of
us function extremely
well despite these
flaws. Some of us
function spectacularly.
People have plenty. Here are just a few
imperfections in the human body. Our
knees are less flexible than some of
our other joints, which makes injury
common. Unlike most other animals,
we cannot make vitamin C and need
to make sure we get it in our diets.
And our jaws are too small to easily
fit all our teeth, which is why wisdom
teeth usually need to be removed.
All our odd parts and functional
compromises exist because evolution
builds on what came before. Our
ancestors walked on four legs, not
two. Our knees are a compromise that
allow us to be bipedal. More recent
ancestors of humans lost the ability
to make vitamin C, but we figured
out a way to solve this problem with
a change in diet. Humans’ primate
ancestors grew bigger jaws than we
do, because they ate tougher foods.
Now our teeth are crowded. None of
these flaws are so serious that they
Variation as
an Element
of Success
Michael Phelps’
body is not perfectly
symmetrical or
balanced. His physical
variations, however,
may have given him
the raw materials to
be a close-to-perfect
swimmer. Phelps’ case is not unique;
elite athletes highlight dramatic
variability that provides them the
physical characteristics to approach
perfection in action. Usain Bolt, an
Olympic sprinter, has an abundance
of fast-twitch muscle fibers that make
him speedy and legs so long that it
takes him four to five fewer steps to
complete a 100-meter race than his
competitors.
Simone Biles, another Olympic gold
medalist, is both strong and small.
The combination is ideal for her sport
of gymnastics. She may also have a
better-than-average ability to sense
where her body is in space, perhaps
making jumps, spins, and somersaults
a tad easier than for an average person.
No athlete is born with the skills
to win gold medals, though. Those
achievements require years of effort.
Using Variation to
Your Advantage
Da Vinci’s drawing of the Vitruvian Man combined mathematics and art. To
da Vinci, the Vitruvian Man depicted
ideal proportions. It was his image of
the perfectly formed man. Da Vinci is a
time-honored artist, but is there really
such thing as a perfect body?
No.
In biology, there is no such thing
as one ideal body. In fact, variation in
all living things, including us, is the
rule. This variation is essential for

Answer 1

Donna Bozzone’s opinion is different from other people in the world because she challenges the conventional idea of a "perfect body" as represented by historical ideals like the Vitruvian Man, arguing instead that perfection may be more about functionality and adaptation than about physical appearance or symmetry.

Evidence 1: Bozzone suggests that "maybe perfection has more to do with how a body works than how it looks," indicating that the real measure of a body's value lies in its ability to function effectively in its environment rather than conforming to a standard of beauty or proportion.

Evidence 2: She emphasizes that "evolution isn’t engineering," which points to the fact that imperfections contribute to the survival and adaptation of species, including humans. This highlights the notion that variation and uniqueness, such as those seen in elite athletes like Michael Phelps, may be better indicators of success rather than adherence to an idealized body type.