Description
The makeup of our anatomy is weirder than you might imagine. We’re not talking about the familiar aspects of our organs like how the heart pumps blood—this is the bizarre stuff. Did you know we still have the gills of a fish hiding in our heads? Or why we choke when “food goes down the wrong way?” Why can you, in a sense, touch part of your brain? Let’s open a cabinet of random curiosities about the human body and marvel at how amazing biology can be.
Bruce Mann, MD, has degrees in biology and medicine. He is a board-certified internist, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a former UNM medical faculty member. Mann is also a frequently sought out presenter for his blend of lecture and humor that transforms technical concepts into easy-to-grasp information for general audiences.