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Author : Lewis I. Held
Release : 2009-05-29
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 482/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Quirks of Human Anatomy by : Lewis I. Held
Download or read book Quirks of Human Anatomy written by Lewis I. Held. This book was released on 2009-05-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces students to basic concepts in evolutionary developmental biology, for undergraduate and graduate courses.
Author : Lewis I. Held, Jr
Release : 2009-05-29
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 757/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Quirks of Human Anatomy by : Lewis I. Held, Jr
Download or read book Quirks of Human Anatomy written by Lewis I. Held, Jr. This book was released on 2009-05-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the emergence of the new field of evolutionary developmental biology we are witnessing a renaissance of Darwin's insights 150 years after his On the Origin of Species. Thus far, the exciting findings from 'evo-devo' have only been trickling into college courses and into the domain of non-specialists. With its focus on the human organism, Quirks of Human Anatomy opens the floodgates by stating the arguments of evo-devo in plain English, and by offering a cornucopia of interesting case studies and examples. Its didactic value is enhanced by 24 schematic diagrams that integrate a host of disparate observations, by its Socratic question-and-answer format, and by its unprecedented compilation of the literature. By framing the 'hows' of development in terms of the 'whys' of evolution, it lets readers probe the deepest questions of biology. Readers will find the book educational and enjoyable, as it revels in the fun of scientific exploration.
Author : Maria Birmingham
Release : 2014
Genre : JUVENILE NONFICTION
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Book Rating : 100/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tastes Like Music by : Maria Birmingham
Download or read book Tastes Like Music written by Maria Birmingham. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes seventeen ways in which some people are unlike everyone else because of differerences in their bodies or their brains, and interviews people with these conditions, many of whom did not know there was anyone else like them.
Author : Armand Marie Leroi
Release : 2005-01-25
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 765/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mutants by : Armand Marie Leroi
Download or read book Mutants written by Armand Marie Leroi. This book was released on 2005-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http://armandleroi.com/index.html Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it—a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer’s Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity. This elegant, humane, and engaging book “captures what we know of the development of what makes us human” (Nature).
Author : Nathan H. Lents
Release : 2018-05-01
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 677/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Human Errors by : Nathan H. Lents
Download or read book Human Errors written by Nathan H. Lents. This book was released on 2018-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biology professor’s “funny, fascinating” tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA—that make us human (Discover). We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often—two hundred times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there’s been some kind of mistake? As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is indeed nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last. The human body is one big pile of compromises. But that is also a testament to our greatness: as Lents shows, humans have so many design flaws precisely because we are very, very good at getting around them. A rollicking, deeply informative tour of humans’ four-billion-year-and-counting evolutionary saga, Human Errors both celebrates our imperfections and offers an unconventional accounting of the cost of our success. “An insightful and entertaining romp through the myriad ways in which the human body falls short of an engineering ideal—and the often-surprising reasons why.” —Ian Tattersall, author of The Monkey in the Mirror
