Skin Deep isn’t always Bad
Bill Bryson is like a series lectures from the world’s ultimate science teacher. Like his previous science tome ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ he meanders through interesting facts telling facts about the body, dispelling common myths, and throwing in enough science history anecdotes to keep things interesting. It’s not that I learned very much from the book, but it is eminently snackable, and a reasonable second vantage for some of the topics covered in less skin deep treatments of specific parts of our biological hardware. One myth I do appreciate dispelling is that about cranial size and birth canal – it’s not about our big brains.
- The adoption of a narrow pelvis to accommodate our new gait brought a huge amount of pain and danger to women in childbirth. *
** 74th book of 2021 **