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"This enlightening and irresistible books explains how you were made--not with the standard enphemisms told to us as children, but with vivid, exacting prose that unveils all the complex processes we never knew produced human life. With a brilliant talent for thoughtful, charming science writing, Katharina Vestre takes us from cell to human and shares surprising facts along the way--such as that spermhave a sense of smell and that hiccups were likely...
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North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
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"Combining new research findings with the wisdom of a lifetime's research, this work will provide a greater understanding of the minds of unborn children"--Provided by publisher.
In the past, the invisible physical processes of fetal development were mysterious and largely unexplainable, but in the past half-century, breakthroughs in embryology, interuterine photography, ultrasound, and other sensitive instruments of measurement have enabled us to...
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Discover the thrilling story of how people are made, from the moment of conception to the moment of birth 280 days later. Follow the gestation process, the most exquisite biological choreography found in nature. Using the latest research and advances in medicine, we can reveal this hidden world in forensic detail. Zeroing in on milestones along the road to creation; where critical events can change people's life.
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