Skeleton

General Science

Eyewitness Books

Paperback

Educational

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Here is an exciting and informative guide to the workings of human and animal skeletons. Superb color photographs of the bones of the human skeleton offer a unique “eyewitness” view of how our bodies work, and highlight a host of comparisons with the skeletons of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and mammals.

See the 206 different bones in the human body - how your skull differs from a lion’s or a chimp’s - how teeth grow, and what each different one is for - what the inside of a bone looks like

Learn how bones mend themselves when they break - why half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet - how many toes a horse has - what has happened to the tail you once had

Discover which are the smallest bones in the human body - why some creatures wear their skeletons on the outside - what animal once owned the oldest bones ever found on Earth

And much, much more

Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.

9780789490834

1988

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