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Twenty-first-century anatomy lesson

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Polymath pieces together the surprising past of the human body from fins, wings, hangovers and hiccups.

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  1. Carl Zimmer is a science writer based in Guilford, Connecticut, and is author of Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life.,

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