
The Body in Motion – Theodore Dimon
Descripción The Body in Motion Among the impressive array of machines which humans have invented, there is none that even remotely compares to the subtle and marvelous complexity of the human body. Our capacity for skilled movement, our upright posture, our hands, vision, and the other senses—all are marvels of engineering and design. But why do we possess this design, and how did we become this way? At first glance, many of the seemingly arbitrary details of our anatomy—the bony protrusions of the shoulder girdle, the spine, our intricate musculature—seem to defy full understanding. Yet each of these structures, when