A review by reginacattus
Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi

3.0

I kept thinking "and now it'll get onto the main part" and then kept being a little underwhelmed. My own expectations for the book aside, it had a lot of interesting medical enigmas and their explanations, with an unsurprisingly high frequency of acronyms and scientific concepts. I was mostly okay with these since I am a biologist, and I was ridiculously pleased with myself every time a recognised when he was referencing to an earlier gene or part of the embryo. It does progress logically from embryology to gerontology and the various mistakes in-between. I would especially recommend this half wry half dry work out nonfiction to trainee doctors etc who have just been introduced to the complex science of embryology.