Ultimate Bodypedia: An Amazing Inside-Out Tour of the Human Body
HOORAY HUMANS for
Chapter 1
INTRODUCING AMAZING YOU MARVELOUS MAMMALS You are one of a kind a truly special and unique being Nobody else in the world is exactly like you You also belong to a one of a kind species or type of living thing All species are wonderful in some way think of an elephant a dog a duck a honeybee but no other species can do all the complex things that humans can Humans can invent and build an enormous variety of things from mousetraps and matches to submarines and computers We have also invented languages and alphabets so we can share information with each other even across continents and centuries Long ago our curiosity and ability to invent things helped us figure out how to use fire grow food and travel far across lands and oceans Today those same traits help us explore our world our universe and ourselves And we couldn't do any of it without the human body Scientists place living things into different categories This organizing system is called classification Humans are classified as mammals which are animals that make milk for their young Mammals are also the only animals that grow hair Humans additionally are in a mammal group known as the primates a group that includes gorillas chimpanzees orangutans gibbons and
HOORAY FOR HUMANS Bet you didn't know A chimpanzee is more closely related to a human than it is to a gorilla Humans and chimps share more than 96 percent of the same genes Standing shoulder to shoulder the entire world's population could fit within the 500 square miles 1 300 sq km of Los Angeles A California U S
