cspiwak's review
5.0
Really loved this book. Have always been fascinated in side shows and in diversity and what the implications for individuals with mutations would be. This is a really scientific book, but if you stick with it, it is well worth it.
reginacattus's review
3.0
I kept thinking "and now it'll get onto the main part" and then kept being a little underwhelmed. My own expectations for the book aside, it had a lot of interesting medical enigmas and their explanations, with an unsurprisingly high frequency of acronyms and scientific concepts. I was mostly okay with these since I am a biologist, and I was ridiculously pleased with myself every time a recognised when he was referencing to an earlier gene or part of the embryo. It does progress logically from embryology to gerontology and the various mistakes in-between. I would especially recommend this half wry half dry work out nonfiction to trainee doctors etc who have just been introduced to the complex science of embryology.
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