This belongs to a select category of popular science books which are at the same time essential and worldview-changing, yet are far too lengthy and watery for both their publisher's intended audience (the general public, for whom they were commissioned), and the people their author actually wante...
He learned all about anatomy, many aspects of biochemistry, and cell biology. He was also taught the number of chromosomes in a human cell. The problem was, he learned that it was forty-eight. Biologists had first visualized the nuclei of human cells in 1912 and counted these forty-eight chromoso...