The human body a guide for occupants7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() We learn, too, that scientists don’t know why we have chins, and that it would cost £96,546.79 to assemble all 59 elements in the body in sufficient quantities to build an adult male. We learn that every breath contains “25 sextillion molecules of oxygen”, and that each day you probably inhale at least one molecule from the breaths of every person who has ever lived. In A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003), he elucidated the wonders of the universe in his latest, equally “fact-rammed” book, the human body receives a similar treatment. ![]() But the “genial American” – who has lived in Britain since the early 1970s – is also a dab hand at popular science. “Most of us know Bill Bryson as the funniest travel writer of his generation,” said James McConnachie in The Sunday Times. ![]()
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