But we only need to look a little bit closer to see just how complex they are, and Bryson’s book does just that. It’s only too easy to take our bodily functions - the skin, the digestive system, the immune system and all the rest of them - for granted, just as we have come to be used to vaccines and antibiotics and modern dentistry. The book contains a staggering amount of information, but that never stops Bryson from being chatty, down to earth and very, very funny.Īnd so we travel with Bryson, as he uncovers the many mysteries of the human body and modern medicine. In just over 450 pages, Bryson covers a wide array of topics, from the human brain, to the skin, to the microbes that we all carry around and even cancer, or when things go horribly wrong. The Body, he does the same for the bodies that we, well, occupy all day. A Short History of Nearly Everything, delved into the universe, and brought the somewhat inaccessible world of science to the layperson.
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