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Nature 451, 245 (17 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/451245a; Published online 16 January 2008
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- Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- St. Louis, MO 63110 United States
Postdoctoral Associate in Enzyme Biochemistry
- Cornell University
- Ithaca, NY
Twenty-first-century anatomy lesson
Carl Zimmer1
Abstract
Polymath pieces together the surprising past of the human body from fins, wings, hangovers and hiccups.
BOOK REVIEWED-Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
Allen Lane/Pantheon: 2008. 240 pp. £20/$24
Six hundred years ago, anatomists were rock stars. Their lessons filled open-air amphitheatres, where the curious public rubbed shoulders with medical students.
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