Why Are Humans Symmetrical?

Why we have two of some things and one of others — the hidden geometry of the body.

• Human Body
• 40 min
• Ages 8–13
• 12 chapters

About this audiobook

Why we have two of some things and one of others — the hidden geometry of the body.

Chapters

1. The Almost-Mirror Body
2. The Architecture of Motion
3. The Three Great Coordinates
4. The Language of the Embryo
5. The Master Sculptors: Hox Genes
6. The Whispering Cilia
7. The Asymmetric Interior
8. Developmental Noise and the Imperfect Line
9. The Geometry of the Face
10. Across the Tree of Life
11. The Mathematics of Emergence
12. The Horizon of Natural Science