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Issues and Reviews in Teratology
Harold . Ed(S): Kalter
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Paperback / so. Editor(s): Kalter, Harold. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: MFN; MJT; PSAK; PSC; WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 503.
Teratology is at once among the oldest and youngest of human preoccupations. Coincident with man's first observations of the stars were his recordings of human and animal deformities. But, such aberrancies must have occurred even earlier, for although it is one of those things-like evolution-that cannot be proven, it is nevertheless indisputable that dysmorphogenesis must have occurred from the time complex forms of life first arose on our planet; and that from the beginnings of human awareness our species was conscious of such happenings. From the earliest recordings of this fascination with the form and meaning of abnormality a tortuous ... Read more
Teratology is at once among the oldest and youngest of human preoccupations. Coincident with man's first observations of the stars were his recordings of human and animal deformities. But, such aberrancies must have occurred even earlier, for although it is one of those things-like evolution-that cannot be proven, it is nevertheless indisputable that dysmorphogenesis must have occurred from the time complex forms of life first arose on our planet; and that from the beginnings of human awareness our species was conscious of such happenings. From the earliest recordings of this fascination with the form and meaning of abnormality a tortuous ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461573135
SKU
V9781461573135
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99-15
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