# Anatomies

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- Authors: [Hugh Aldersey-Williams](https://www.bookquiver.com/hugh-aldersey-williams)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-02-07
- Genres: Society and culture: general, General and world history, Popular science, Popular medicine and health

## Description

In Anatomies , bestselling author Hugh Aldersey-Williams investigates that marvellous, mysterious form: the human body. Did you know that your bladder has a snooze button? Or that a child's arm can support the weight of a car? That one in two hundred of us has a spare rib, and some have an extra X or Y chromosome? That while the British fall 'flat on their face', the Germans fall, more precisely, 'on their nose'? That in Ancient Egypt, the symbol for a heart was a vase, and that in contemporary sweden it is used for unisex lavatories? From ancient body art to plastic surgery, early anatomists to conceptual artists, grave-robbers to bionic athletes, Anatomies blends history and science, art and the everyday, to chart our ever-changing understanding of the human body, providing a treasure trove of surprising facts, remarkable stories and startling information.

## Editions

### Anatomies

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-06-7092-072-3
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2014-01-30
- Language: en_GB

### Anatomies

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-06-7092-075-4
- Published: 2013-02-07
- Language: en_GB