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# Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself Illustrated Edition

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    Fascinating introduction to the way cellular dynamics can lead to biological complexity
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2014*

"The history of a man for the first nine months preceding his birth would probably be far more interesting than all the three score and ten years that follow it" - Samuel Taylor Coolidge.  The book starts with this quote which is an excellent preamble to the contents.  How a fertilized egg can transform itself through cell division into a human body with all its cell diversity is, for the vast majority of us, mind blowing.  Life unfolding starts with the embryo an discusses aspects of what we know about how life develops.  It can be hard to follow at times as the names of proteins and tissue regions are not easily memorized but the contents are fascinating.  Life unfolding takes us through aspects of biological development looking at areas involved in conception all the way up until death.  The topics are chosen to give us a sense of what people are focused on as well as how biological science is done.The book is split into 3 core parts.  The first is titled First Sketch.  The author starts at the beginning and looks at the journey of a fertilized egg.  It discusses the potential mechanical mechanisms that a cell employs to divide effectively.  The author communicated the initial conditions well so that the complexity of processes like cell division become more understandable to us.  By this I mean people don't usually think about why cell division in and of itself should be difficult ones the nucleus has divided but by describing the blindness of molecules to the geometry of the cell, the process of self organization is quickly realized to be highly non-trivial.  The author discusses how the embryo moves to attach itself to the mother, how it uses mechanical principles to orient itself and start to create structure from symmetry.  The author describes how the feedback mechanisms used by proteins leads to complex and differentiating behavior from uniform cell samples.  The author discusses how a spherical set of cells can start to create the conditions of a body formation.  One starts to get the sense of how uniformity can turn into heterogeneous behavior all through locally generated feedback mechanisms.In the second section, Adding Details, the author moves on to discuss how the true complexity of our bodies starts to evolve.  We get a sense of how stem cells start to branch depending on the feedback signals in the local area of the cells that leads to organ formation.  We learn how protein concentrations affect gene activation which feedback to protein concentration and how all of these can combine to create bias in cellular movement that helps organize new tissues and organs.  The author discusses the kidneys at length and how arms and legs are created can form using feedback effects.  The author also discusses the differences between the chromosomes of the sexes, namely the XY and XX pairs, and how physiology is a function of certain gene representations and feedback effects due to how XY and XX behave differently and how inhibited Y chromosomes can evolve to look like women in all things but reproductive ability.In the final core section, Refinement, the author discusses later stage life.  In this section we move past the quote the book starts with and start to focus on internal evolution, the author discusses the nervous system and articulates both the incredible complexity of our neural networks as well as how feedback effects between neurons guides the way connections are formed.  The author discusses the Vitruvian man and how the proportions of the body can be thrown off due to certain cellular process malfunctions.  The author ends by noting how our body is constantly replenishing our cells and then dives into how the regeneration process is propagated.Life unfolding gives the reader a sense of how symmetry is broken in cellular life.  It describes aspects of the incredible complexity of our cellular life by focusing on stylized examples that are relatively simple dynamical systems that can lead to unintuitive complex outcomes.  It is extremely interesting but at times overwhelming.  There are a multitude of genes and proteins that the reader will be unfamiliar with and the cross referencing means the reader will have to flip back to earlier sections quite often to remind themselves of details.  The fact that the author can communicate aspects of how cell complexity arises to the novice is a remarkable feat and I encourage people to read this book.

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    Excellent enrichment for AP Biology, good cell biology refresher
  

*by O***G on Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2017*

This book does three things well.1. It helps people understand basic biochemistry and cell signaling within the context of human development.2. It explains biology deeper than 9th grade levels metaphors do. (Chapter 1 alone destroys the blueprint/DNA metaphor very artfully)3. It answers how humans are put together giving details every step of the way.The book also gives many examples of physiological processes and explains how cells interact with each other and their environment. It's easy to read and the diagrams are easy to understand.

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    What the politicians and theologians don't know but should!
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2019*

In this time when every elected official believes he has the power to coerce every potential parent what is allowed for them to do (also every ecclesiastic authority) or not do and when their statements reveal they haven't a clue what the events of reproduction are, this book is able to tell them what they must know to be legitimately involved.  I do think some of them still believe in the stork!  The author has been careful not to use sentences too long or words too big!

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