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The Secret Life of Bones - Their Origins, Evolution and Fate (Paperback)
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The Secret Life of Bones - Their Origins, Evolution and Fate (Paperback)
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Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material
developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It has
manifested itself in wings, sails, horns, armour, and an even
greater array of appendages since the time of its origin. In
dinosaur fossils, skeletons are biological time capsules that tell
us of lives we'll never see in the flesh. Inherited from a common
fishy ancestor, it is the stuff that binds all of us vertebrates
together into one great family. Swim, slither, stomp, fly, dig, run
- all are expressions of what bones make possible. But that's
hardly all. In The Secret Life of Bones, Brian Switek frames the
history of our species through the importance of bone from
instruments and jewellery, to objects of worship and conquest from
the origins of religion through the genesis of science and up
through this very day. While bone itself can reveal our individual
stories, the truth very much depends on who's telling it. Our
skeletons are as embedded in our culture as they are in our bodies.
Switek, an enthusiastic osteological raconteur, cuts through
biology, history, and culture to understand the meaning of what's
inside us and what our bones tell us about who we are, where we
came from and the legacies we leave behind.
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