中文简介:
你知道你是由什么组成的吗?答案是细胞。大约有三万亿个细胞一起工作,形成了你。
本书探索了生命最微小的组成部分,并从单个细胞到复杂的系统介绍了人体是如何运动、生长、呼吸、感知、思考和感觉的。你会发现为什么你会感到紧张不安,你的大脑为什么比最强大的计算机还要复杂,你体内的细菌细胞比银河系中的恒星还要多。
此外,书中的广阔艺术插图不仅美观而且有教育意义,有助于深入了解人类复杂而令人惊叹的细胞结构。
英文简介:
Do you know what you're made of? The answer is CELLS – about thirty TRILLION of them – all working together to form one awesome human being: YOU.
The tiniest building blocks of life are crammed amongst the pages of this book, waiting to be discovered. From individual cells to complex systems, discover how your body moves, grows, breathes, senses, thinks and feels. Find out why you get butterflies in your stomach, how your brain is more complex than the most powerful computer, and that you are home to more bacteria cells than there are stars in the Milky Way.
Featuring expansive, artistic illustration that is as beautiful to look at as it is educational, your intricate, incredible cells are worth a closer look.