"When you meet people, whether they're
fully clothed on the street or scantily clad on the beach, the
first part of their body that you see, smell, and perhaps touch
is the skin. Skin is our largest and most visible organ, our
personal poster board for decoration and advertisement. Nina
Jablonski gives us the best and most fascinating account of
everything that you might want to know about the packaging of
our anatomy."
Jared Diamond
author of Collapse
and Guns, Germs, and Steel
"This fascinating book traces the long evolutionary history
of our integument, revealing a whole host of essential skin
functions that most of us have probably never even thought of."
Ian
Tattersall
author of The Fossil Trail
"A fascinating and comprehensive account of the biological
and cultural aspects of human skin."
John Relethford
SUNY College at Oneonta
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