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2 CONTENTST itle PageDedicationPreface ONE Finding your Inner FishTWO Getting a GripTHREE Handy GenesFOUR Teeth EverywhereFIVE Getting AheadSIX The Best-Laid (Body) PlansSEVEN Adventures in BodybuildingEIGHT Making ScentsNINE VisionTEN EarsELEVEN The Meaning of It All EpilogueNotes, References, and Further ReadingAcknowledgmentsCopyright3 TO MICHELE4 PREFACEThis book grew out of an extraordinary circumstance in mylife. On account of faculty departures, I ended up directingthe human anatomy course at the medical school of theUniversity of Chicago. Anatomy is the course during whichnervous first-year medical students dissect humancadavers while learning the names and organization ofmost of the organs, holes, nerves, and vessels in the is their grand entrance to the world of medicine, aformative experience on their path to becoming first glance, you couldn t have imagined a worsecandidate for the job of training the next generation ofdoctors: I m a paleontologist who has spent most of hiscareer working on turns out that being a paleontologist is a hugeadvantage in teaching human anatomy.

Despite these advances, the hunt for the important fossils is much what it was a hundred years ago. Paleontologists still need to look at rock—literally to crawl over it—and the fossils within must often be removed by hand. So many decisions need to be made when prospecting for and removing fossil bone that these processes are difficult to ...

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