What makes a monster? Is it a thing with a hairy face, extra eyes or missing limbs? Or is it simply anything that we don't understand?
From two-headed infants and conjoined twins to supernumerary breasts and fragile bones, human mutants have a long history. In tracing ideas about the "form, nature and varieties of the human body", the biologist Armand Marie Leroi reveals the age-old conflict between the views of deformity as divine design and deformity as accident.
...it turns out that on average each of us contains 300 potentially harmful mutations - and one inn 10 of us has an extra rib.
"Who are the mutants? We are all mutants."
Sunday Times' review/ more reviews
Posted by Cieciel at October 26, 2004 08:18 AM