Describes various parts of the body from head to toe and explains how cells, tissues, and organs work together to make the skeletal, digestive, circulatory, and other systems work properly.
Explores the human body in microscopic detail, offering more than three hundred close-up photographs revealing the details of the body's key systems and parts.
a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body
Shubin, Neil
2008
The author, a paleontologist and professor of anatomy, follows the path of evolution by linking the organs of the human body with the physical attributes of non-human ancestors.