Cover art for Spare Parts
Published
Skyhorse Publishing, May 2017
ISBN
9781510712508
Format
Hardcover, 288 pages
Dimensions
21cm × 14cm × 3cm

Spare Parts In Praise of Your Appendix and Other Unappreciated Organs

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Charles Darwin considered them extraneous, but this witty book sheds modern scientific light on the Darwin Six -- appendix, tailbone, "third eyelid," wisdom teeth, external ear muscles, body hair -- once considered useless, now known to be both valuable and interesting, plus a chapter on the true "dispensables," parts with which we can indeed dispense.

Along the way, best-selling author Rinzler weaves in Darwin's brilliant and ground-breaking theories of evolution and shares insights into what the human body may look like millennia from now.

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