SuitabookBones
Steve Jenkins
- Reading
- Read it as a browse-and-discuss book rather than a story. Pause at each spread, examine the illustrations and comparisons, and return to the final whole-human-skeleton layout to connect the parts.
- Themes
- Comparative anatomy: The book compares human bones with those of animals including sloths, pythons, turtles, dolphins, giraffes and other species. Its approach presents skeletal differences as factual material for observation and comparison, rather than as a story or moral argument.
- Visual science communication: The book addresses visual science communication; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. The visual presentation appears designed to make anatomical relationships noticeable and memorable through contrast and arrangement.
- Worth knowing
- Look together at one comparison at a time, asking what has changed and what remains recognisable. Check scale notes carefully, since the stated scale varies between bones.