Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself

by Jamie A. Davies

Book Overview

Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of identical twins not identical? How did my brain learn to learn? Why must I die?

Questions like these remain biology's deepest and most ancient challenges. They force us to confront a fundamental biological problem: how can something as large and complex as a human body organize itself from the simplicity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199673535
• ISBN13: 9780199673537
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"