Quirks of Human Anatomy

Ever since the Middle Ages, anatomy has been a clinical subject. Now, the new field of evolutionary developmental biology is showing how body parts are encoded genetically and how they arose evolutionarily. 'Evo-devo' uses our genome as a Rosetta Stone to decipher our past. Quirks of Human Anatomy takes the reader back to a time when there were no males or females, no arms and legs as we know them, and only rudimentary eyes. From that perspective our anatomical flaws make sense as the quirky outcomes of our peculiar history.