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An excellent exploration of the relationship between time and human biological processes, offering numerous examples of seemingly miraculous timing mechanisms in the human body. This unique approach to human biology provides clear scientific explanations for such questions as: ``How does the heart keep time? What governs growth cycles, reproductive cycles, the aging process, and the healing process? How do seasons affect our moods?'' While the book is full of hard scientific facts, readers will enjoy its lively, engaging style.
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Rose, popular science writer and author Classification of the Animal Kingdom , here provides an overview of the human body. By mixing basic explanations of the way our bodies work with anecdotes of historical and recent scientific discoveries and applications, Rose explores everyday events (e.g., a sneeze); reproduction; and the body's reaction to, for example, injury, drugs, the seasons, aging, and death (not for the squeamish). Although distracting fillers interrupt the text with inter- esting but unrelated information, most readers should find this a palatable introduction to the workings of the human body. Robert Aken, Univ. of Kentucky Lib., Lexington
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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