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Seeking Symmetry - Finding Patterns in Human Health (Paperback)
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Seeking Symmetry - Finding Patterns in Human Health (Paperback)
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Seeking Symmetry: Finding patterns in human health offers a guide
through the overwhelming mass of data generated by contemporary
science. Starved for the knowledge that would best help us stay
healthy, we are simultaneously glutted with an overload of
information about the human body. Amidst ubiquitous talk that
patient-centred care and lifestyle changes are the keys to personal
health, self-neglect and medical overtreatment nevertheless
prevail. The body is rich with symmetries, many of them unknown to
us who live in these bodies. Symmetry-seeking reveals certain
patterns for understanding the information we have about the body,
patterns whose roots lie in embryonic development and in evolution.
The book's exploration will guide readers through the parts of
their own bodies and introduce tangible, visible examples of
symmetry, not only right and left but up and down, male and female,
inside and out, as well as symmetries between humans and other
species.It presents the symmetries of the body's internal
structures that, despite their complexity, are nevertheless simple
to understand when viewed with an eye for pattern.Through both
words and images, this book will illustrate the most foundational
of the principles, structures, and processes that decide how bodies
function.A core purpose of the book is to present this knowledge
through a lens that makes the information meaningful, by modelling
the habit of symmetry-seeking.
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