This beautiful visual reference is designed to appeal to anyone -- especially parents -- interested in how the human body evolves and works. It is also an ideal book to use with siblings of a new baby.
The contents include:
- In the womb: the miracle of life; how a baby develops; what baby feels, sees, hears, and senses
- Growing: muscles and bones, hormones, sustenance, sleep and dreams
- Staying healthy: powers of self-preservation, reflexes, immune system, hormones, self-repair
- Movement: mastering movement- holding the head, rolling, sitting, crawling, walking
- Communication: hard-wired crying, babbling, speaking, listening, body movement
- Learning: intelligence, awareness, and understanding, exploring
- Emotions: personality, experiences, bonding, relationships
- Becoming independent: why humans take so long do so -- longer than any other mammal.
Some of the fascinating facts in Amazing Baby:
- Babies cannot distinguish between night and day until they are about ten weeks. Instead, they rely on their stomachs to regulate their day.
- Within a few days of birth, a baby can distinguish between the touch of brush bristles that are of different diameters.
- Within 45 hours of birth, a newborn knows his/her own mother by her smell.
- Babies have about 10,000 taste buds, far more than adults do. These are not just on the tongue but on the side, back, and roof of the mouth as well.
Desmond Morris' landmark book, The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal, was published in 1967. A worldwide best-seller, it examined how humans feed, sleep, fight, mate and raise young and compared human behavior with that of apes. Controversial at the time, the book shed new light on the subject and helped change popular perceptions.
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