National Geographic - The Incredible Human Body - 3553

Amazon.com In its usual engrossing fashion, National Geographic presents The Incredible Human Body. Starting with the science of conception, this special takes you from one couple's journey through in-vitro fertilization to the removal of a man's brain tumor (while he is awake!) to the amazing memory of London cab drivers. Our body consists of 206 bones, 650 muscles, and a heart that will beat three billion times in our lifetime. How and why does our body develop the way it does? DNA expert J. Craig Venter says, "It's just like solving a jigsaw puzzle, only the jigsaw puzzle in our case has 27 million pieces [and] it came in a very big box and there was no picture on the cover." The Incredible Human Body explores how the brain and body interact to not only function, but adapt and learn. Narrated by actress Kate Burton, The Incredible Human Body is a fascinating lesson in mind-body interaction. --Dana Van Nest Product Description The Incredible Human Body explores the enigmatic human body, showcasing its abilities -- and its potential -- by using revolutionary, cutting-edge imaging systems and the latest advances in science and technology to go inside the bodies of real people, right down to their stem cells. Following a couple trying to conceive, a professional athlete at the top of his game, and a man with a brain tumor, The Incredible Human Body shares in the personal stories of four extraordinary groups of people and explores the body from the inside out as never before. From the Back Cover Cutting-edge medical technology and riveting, life-or-death personal dramas combine in this unprecedented, emotionally compelling exploration of THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN BODY. Marvel at the revolutionary imaging system used to guide a surgeon's scalpel in a delicate brain-tumor operation. Witness a childless couple's fight to beat the odds and create a new life--with a micro-technological assist. See how London cabbies are sending modern brain development theories on an unexpected detour. An astonishing journey inside bodies of real people, right down to their stem cells, this is the amazing inside story of the human machine as you've never seen it before!
ASIN: B000067J3L
VSKU: LFV.B000067J3L.N
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Author/Artist:Alexander Scourby|Leslie Nielsen|Richard Basehart|Orson Welles|Richard Kiley|E.G. Marshall|Joseph Campanella|Burgess Meredith|Alexander Grasshoff|Aram Boyajian|Robert Guenette|Bert Haanstra|James Lipscomb|Jack Kaufman|David Seltzer|Nicolas Noxon
Binding: Dvd