Monday, August 10, 2015
Book Review: The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being by Alice Roberts
This book is a real education starting with the embryo and covering the current understanding of how each major body part was used by other animals and how they evolved to be the body parts that we recognise as being human today.
It covers the length of the human body, including chapters on heads and brains, speech and gills, and guts and yolk sacs. While delving deep into the biology, Alice Roberts seems to keep the technical terms to the bare minimum and explains each term she does have to use to keep the text accurate.
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