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Nature 431, 511 (30 September 2004) | doi:10.1038/431511a; Published online 29 September 2004
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Martin Kemp1
Great, not gruesomeThe notable eighteenth-century German anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus demonstrated that skin colour — the characteristic we use most readily to judge someone's ethnic origins — was literally a superficial matter. He also disclosed, not least through the stylish illustrations he commissioned from Jan Wandelaar for his grand Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporos humani in 1747, that the inner topography of the dissected body was no less wondrous and beautiful than its exterior.
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