Spare Parts (eBook)

In Praise of Your Appendix and Other Unappreciated Organs

Carol Ann Rinzler (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
288 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-1251-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A tribute to the parts we can live without... or can we?This book sheds light on human body parts once considered extraneous but now with modern medicine and modern medical paraphernalia shown to play an important role in our healthful survival. With wit and research-honed wisdom, health writer Carol Ann Rinzler explains in layman's language why we need bonus body parts such as:The appendix, once discarded as the worm of the intestines, but now believed to play an important role in our immune systemThe coccyx, a.k.a. the tailbone, once considered the remnant of a human tail, but now considered the keystone of the boney pelvic arch when muscles meet and stabilize our seatingWisdom teeth, that extra set of molars for which many evolved human jaws lack accommodating space but still remain in place where we higher primates still follow a basic harddiet that require extra chew powerOn the other hand, having highlighted the still-important parts, Rinzler adds a chapter on dispensables: parts with which we can indeed happily dispense. Along the way, Rinzler weaves in Darwins theories of evolution and shares insights on what the human body may be like millennia from now.

Autor

Carol Ann Rinzler is the author of more than 20 books on health, including Leonardo’s Foot, the bestsellers Nutrition For Dummies, 6th edition, and Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies, 2nd edition, and the award-winning Estrogen and Breast Cancer. She wrote a nutrition column for the New York Daily News.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.3.2017
• Zusatzinfo: B&W illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Schlagworte: Adaption • african savannah • Agricultural Revolution • Allele • Bats • Biological Evolution • bipedal primates • bodies evolved • body evolved • Boyd • brain size • Cardiovascular Disease • controlled environment • coronary • Cultural Evolution • current day • days indoors • diverse diet • earliest humans • evolutionary biologist • evolutionary biology • evolutionary history • evolutionary perspective • fad diets • Feedback Loop • fibrous fruits athletes evolved • flat feet • food sources • Fossil Record • healthier lifestyle • Heart disease • Homo erectus • Homo sapiens • human biological • human body • Human Evolution • human evolutionary • Human health • Human History • humans evolved • hunter-gather hominins • industrial revolutions • irritable bowel • Keats • Metabolic disease • mismatch diseases • modern diets • modern environment • Modern Humans • Modern life • Modern society • Natural selection • Paleoanthropology • Physical Activity • Preeclampsia • prehistoric man • preventing disease • processed food • risk factor • sedentary lives • Springer • Type II • wearing supportive • wisdom teeth • Workbook
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-1251-8 / 1510712518
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1251-5 / 9781510712515