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Your Body Is a Walking System of Systems

What would it take to build a human body? That’s the question addressed in Your Designed Body by Steve Laufmann (a systems engineer) and Howard Glicksman (a physician), wherein they present human physiology as seen through an engineer’s eyes. Your Designed Body (YDB) summarizes for everyday readers the eleven major systems of the body, revealing how each one interacts with and depends upon the others and thus squarely challenging the notion that such complex physiology could arise by unguided processes.

The overarching takeaway point is this: the human body is a system of systems. The book describes each subsystem and includes additional chapters on the senses of sight and hearing,...