“But if you could look beneath the surface of your skin, you see that even the smallest hair is not as small as... a skin cell.“
“But if you could look beneath the surface of your skin, you see that even the smallest hair is not as small as... a skin cell.“
Jason Chin also wrote Your Place in the Universe- the opposite scale of this book. It zooms out into the universe and galaxy.
A good introduction to cells. I liked how Jason Chin starts with the smallest bird, then the smallest butterfly, and keeps zooming in to emphasize how much smaller everything is on the cellular and atomic level. Helpful and clear illustrations, too!