(Part 2) Best anatomy books according to redditors

It is a pseudoscience. Orthotropics is a pseduoscience invented and marketed by John and Mike Mew (they're a father & son team). From what I can tell, they have been expelled from the British Orthodontic Society, which is the official medical association for orthodontists in England.

They've been peddling this bullshit for years apparently. Here's a letter/comment from an actual orthodontist in the British Dental Journal:

"During my 25-year career as an orthodontist I have lost count of the number of times Dr Mew has had his controversial views published in the BDJ. Now he has self-published a 354 page book which costs £140, and is of 'limited relevance to the general practitioner or dental student, but specialists will be able to reach their own conclusions..."
https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2014.707



And another one....



"Since most orthodontists use functionals, and tongue exercises are likely to have no effect then one can only assume that he is doing the same as everyone else. The problem is that Mr Mew has a theory but nothing else to back it up. Therefore can I please ask of Mr Mew three things: 1) stop proclaiming how right you are, we get the message but I'm afraid it will be ignored until you, 2) publish the details of your orthotropic treatment so we can actually find out what it is, a suitable title would be Orthotropics a step-by-step guide (please don't suggest that I could join the London School of Orthotropics to find out) and last but by no means least, 3) publish some evidence that it works, a double blind clinical trail would be nice but even an audit of 50 sequential cases would do as a start. You may be able to convince a few non-sceptical individuals that you are right but most of us are not prepared to ask our patients to do tongue exercises when they are likely to have no effect and neither should you."
https://www.nature.com/articles/4813141

It's complete bs. They took some data and managed to mish-mash it into their pseudoscience. There is no legitimate field called "orthotropics"; they think they're being clever by trying to make it sound like orthodontics, which is an actual medical specialty.

It's Brandolini's Bullshit Asymmetry Principle unfolding right here on reddit; the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.


UPDATE 1: They're trying to sell their book about their pseudoscience
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:P7RYiEagX6kJ:https://orthotropics.com/shop-item/cause-cure-malocclusion/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

UPDATE 2 I guess the video also serves to sell other books too. Could anyone check to see if the video poster has an Amazon Affiliate Program? I'm guessing the youtuber who posted the video gets some kind of monetary incentive to promote the books.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1944177590/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stuf0e-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1944177590&linkId=8ccdb44081e1708db4301452701fba41

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1503604136/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stuf0e-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1503604136&linkId=eb09f87db04071d4214d5f122969841a

UPDATE 3 Dr. Felix Liao, the author of one of the books above, is a "holistic doctor"
Here's more about him

There's a reason why the video only lists these books; there are no real studies on this.

UPDATE 4 There's a similar if not the same pseudoscience called "orofacial myofunctional therapy." Actually reading the poorly designed studies, looking up the biases of the researchers, as well as the origins of the journal it was published in are extremely important to determine whether it's a pseudoscience or not. That... and also if they are trying to selling books, courses, memberships, or any other multi-leveling/cult marketing nonsense.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25279527

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4296637/pdf/dpjo-19-04-0094.pdf

>why or how a species would have become sexual, or having two compatible sexes.

Read a book

As someone who knows chemistry and genetics, it all makes sense and fits together -- but you have to actually build an understanding of things from the ground up in order to grasp some of these concepts.
That requires reading.

For those who don't want to watch the video:

Big Ideas in Brief by Ian Crofton

Sapiens: a Brief History of Human Kind by Yuval Noah Harari

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by Sandra Blakeslee and Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh

How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky

The Brain: A Beginner's Guide by Ammar Al-Chalabi, R. Shane Delamont, and Martin R. Turner


Ill go ahead and put in a plug for the book I'm reading right now: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

To make things as clear as possible, there is no absolute way for us to know with our current evidence how these extinct hominins were related to one another. We can surmise based on where and when the fossils are found, and possible links between morphologies of different specimens but in all honesty, these are just hypotheses. Two major reasons why it's so hard to accurately place these fossils:

1. Only a fraction of the living species present at the time are fossilized. It's on the order of around 5%. So take a walk in your woods today, at best only 5% of those species will fossilize.
   
   
2. Those species which are lucky enough to get fossilized have to eventually be exposed in a location where humans are going to find them.
   
   All this means is that it is very unlikely that we have found all the hominin species that ever existed.
   
   There are two major camps which exist in regards to how these fossils are categorized. First there are the lumpers and second there are the splitters.
   
   
3. Lumpers: this group likes to classify all the fossils from around 2.5 mya years ago until today as a single species which has changed slowly over time. So rather then having H. erectus you would have H. sapiens erectus. They argue that the morphological differences and corresponding behavioural attributes (e.g. tool cultures) are not different enough to warrant separate species classification.
   
   
4. Splitters: They like to divide the fossils up based on morphological, behavioural, spatial and temporal divisions. The number of species varies because not everyone agrees on the amount of difference required for species status. Needless to say a few hypotheses stand out and I will go over them here. Wikipedia is a great resource for starting off, but learning the terminology can be tricky.
   
   Hypotheses regarding the origins of H. erectus
   
   
5. H. erectus is a descendant of H. ergaster. H. erectus fossils are all found in Eurasia, whereas H. ergaster fossils are all found in Africa. H. ergaster evolved in Africa about 1.8 million years ago and quickly gave rise to H. erectus in Eurasia. H. erectus then spread as far as China and Java exploiting many new environments within this vast territory.
   
   
6. H. ergaster and H. erectus are the same species and share a common ancestor in Africa. The only distinction is that H. ergaster would refer to African fossils of this species and H. erectus would refer to the Eurasian ones. This seems to be the more favourable hypothesis right now.
   
   
7. It is unlikely that H. habilis is the direct ancestor of H. ergaster or H. erectus or both. First, it looks like H. habilis coexisted with ergaster/erectus in Africa for a couple hundred thousand years. More recently H. habilis has come under closer scrutiny and there are those would would have it placed not as the first known member of the Homo species, but rather as an australopithecine.
   
   "In 2007, new findings seemed to confirm the view that H. habilis and H. erectus coexisted and may be separate lineages from a common ancestor instead of H. erectus being descended from H. habilis.[6] At the very least, these findings indicate that any ancestral relationship from H. habilis to H. erectus would have to have been cladogenetic rather than anagenetic (in more vernacular terms, this means that even if an isolated subgroup population of H. habilis did indeed become the common ancestor of the rest of the genus, other subgroups remained as unchanged H. habilis until their much later extinction".
   
   External references
   
   
8. How humans evolved
   
   
9. Masters of the planet
   
   
10. Smithsonian human evolution, more specifically on H. habilis: "While scientists used to think that H. habilis was the ancestor of Homo erectus, recent discoveries in 2000 of a relatively late 1.44 million-year-old Homo habilis (KNM-ER 42703) and a relatively early 1.55 million-year-old H. erectus (KNM-ER 42700) from the same area of northern Kenya (Ileret, Lake Turkana) challenged the conventional view that these species evolved one after the other. Instead, this evidence - along with other fossils - demonstrate that they co-existed in Eastern Africa for almost half a million years."
    
    Tl;DR Current evidence suggest that H. erectus is not the direct descendant of H. habilis

This book is fantastic and completely worth the money.

Trail Guide to the Body

I also recommend the anatomy coloring books, and surprisingly, if you search Pinterest there are a lot of really nice charts and pics.

>So how about the origin of male and female. How did a self replicating something mutate into two distinct types of itself that have to mate with each other in order to reproduce.

In short, that's not what happened. There are a couple of typical responses to this question - that sex, from a biological perspective is merely the specialization of reproductive cells, that species which reproduce sexually but which produce both types of gametes, that sex has evolved separately multiple times, and so on, but I think if you're interested in the topic, you might want to start here. Or, alternatively, this video might prove enlightening, though it is short. There are a few youtube videos which are generally reliable that hit upon the key points, that I can point you in the direction of, if you want something shorter and perhaps more to the point.

Masters of the Plant is a pretty decent one. The author, Ian Tattersall, is a Cambridge grad with a PhD from Yale, and is curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History.

There isn't a single answer to this question, and it isn't necessarily even true in all cases. It is true that we deal with many illnesses more than other animals, but there are certainly exceptions. But I will touch on a few places where you are right.

Your example of drinking dirty water is actually an easy one-- We are too clean. Literally, the fact that we treat our water so effectively means that our immune systems aren't robust enough to handle the microbes that other animals-- and people who grew up drinking that dirty water-- can handle without a problem.

But there are other types of illnesses that we are much more prone to, such as auto-immune disorders. There are a few auto-immune diseases that effect various animal species, but they are far less prevalent than they are in humans. The same is true of allergies. Many types of animals can have allergies, but they are more prevalent in humans than in most other species.

We also get head colds a lot more than other species, for a really simple-- and really stupid if you believe we were designed-- reason: Our nasal sinuses drain upwards. Because of this, our sinuses don't drain automatically, and rely on cilia to carry mucous away, but a sinus infection can cause the whole system to break down leading to a head cold. Other animals don't have this issue because their sinuses drain downwards. Here's Nathan Lents explaining what happened in his book Human Errors:


> But why is the drainage system at the top of the maxillary sinuses instead of below? The evolutionary history of the human face holds the answer. As primates evolved from earlier mammals, the nasal features underwent a radical change in structure and function. In many mammals, smell is the single most important sense, and the structure of the entire snout was designed to optimize this sense. This is why most mammals have elongated snouts: to accommodate huge air-filled cavities chock-full of odor receptors. As our primate ancestors evolved, however, there was less reliance on smell and more reliance on vision, touch, and cognitive abilities. Accordingly, the snout regressed, and the nasal cavities got smushed into a more compact face.

> The evolutionary rearrangement of the face continued as apes evolved from monkeys. The Asian apes—gibbons and orangutans—simply ditched the upper set of cavities altogether; their lower sinuses are smaller and drain in the direction of gravity. The African apes—chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans—all share the same type of sinuses. However, in the other apes, the sinuses are larger and more cavernous, and they are joined to each other by wide openings, which facilitates unrestricted flow of both air and mucus. Not so with humans.

> Nowhere are there more differences between humans and nonhuman primates than in the facial bones and skull. Humans have much smaller brows, smaller dental ridges, and flatter, more compact faces. In addition, our sinus cavities are smaller and disconnected from one another, and the drainage ducts are much skinnier. Evolutionarily speaking, humans gained nothing by having those drainage pathways squeezed into narrow tubes. This was likely a side effect of making room for our big brains.

> This rearrangement produced a suboptimal design that has left us more susceptible to colds and painful sinus infections than perhaps any other animal. But as far as poor design goes, this evolutionary mishap is nothing compared to what lurks just a bit farther down in the body: a nerve that should drive straight from the brain to the neck but instead takes a few dangerous detours along the way.

That book deals directly with your question, and addresses a lot of the reasons why we deal with certain illnesses more. I would definitely recommend it if you want to know more.

Download and read this free e-book.

There are many websites that you can find introductory material for neuroscience. Just google some keywords like "interactive brain" or "brain tutorial" .

http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/index_d.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/organs/brainmap/

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/3d/

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/brain-article/

http://www.getbodysmart.com/ap/nervoussystem/nervoussystem.html

http://academic.scranton.edu/department/psych/sheep/human/frames1.html


Also if you want to read a book, you can take a look at The Human Brain Book.

Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan H. Lents is a great read too. It's not directly about religion, but it sure puts the "intelligent design" idea to rest.

Some great answers in here, but if you really want to understand then you will want to dive into a documentary, lecture, or book.

Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7WHs6I1NLs

Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x858bOny4Gw

Audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG0j_lvW6A0

Books!

Relatively light reading: https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Planet-Search-Origins-MacSci/dp/1137278307/

A bit higher level: https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Survivors-Came-Humans-Earth/dp/1250023300

Textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-World-Human-Evolution-Second/dp/0500288984

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0805395695/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1426092681&sr=8-1&keywords=anatomy+and+physiology+marieb+8th&dpPl=1&dpID=51oYx0qmpDL&ref=plSrch&pi=AC_SY200_QL40



Sorry for the long link, on mobile and can't be bothered to fix it. That's Marieb's Anatomy and Physiology, 8th edition. They're up to the 10th now, but if you're just reading for your own knowledge it should work just fine, and it's quite a bit cheaper.

It might be a little daunting getting into this stuff at first. If you're a student right now, I'd recommend taking an anatomy course, or maybe Human Biology if that's offered. If you're not a student, check out some local community colleges, or look into online courses.

Can I ask why you're interested in this?

Do you honestly think that all peer-reviewed journals are equivalent? If so, maybe you shouldn't be in /r/science.

There's a lot of material in peer-reviewed journals that has later been discovered false. One of the worst areas for refuted claims happens to be the area of sex differences.

If you want to actually understand the sorry state of sex-differences research, I recommend you read Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences; check out one of the many good reviews this book got here.

Gray Cook's book Movement covers everything you just described. That, combined with Kelly Starrett's Becoming a Supple Leopard and you're set. One more book I recommend, Travell and Simons' The Trigger Point Manuel.


This is just skimming the surface though. A thorough understanding of kinesiology, anatomy, and physiology, while not required, will help you understand the theory behind the human body.

If you love youtube definitely check out Armando Hasudungan
https://www.youtube.com/user/armandohasudungan

Personally I lived by Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy

https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Human-Anatomy-Professional-NetterReference-com/dp/1455758884/ref=la_B000AQ4WBC_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1523296631&sr=1-1

Best place to start is:
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Brain-Book-Rita-Carter/dp/0756654416/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1313985947&sr=8-2

All picture based and a lot is covered. Generally a cool book even if you know a bit about the brain.

Start here.

If you are looking for research papers, you can try this. There a few free papers. I would recommend logging in to your local library, or college if you are registered, and searching for research papers on topics you are interested in. Just pick a neurotransmitter, a drug, and a brain function. You will learn a lot that way.

I haven't read this but it does look very neat:
The Human Brain Book. Any intro textbook to neuropsychology will describe the brain and its components and should delve heavily into neurotransmitters.

Have fun! It's very interesting stuff. The more you start reading about this, the more you realize how little we actually know and how oversimplified many common explanations you hear about are.

There's a couple books I think you would like, seeing as I always see you talking about the evolution of information and biochemistry.

The first one is Arrival of the Fittest by Andreas Wagner. This guy is a researcher who studied things like proteins and gene mutations and uploaded all kinds of information about it into these sophisticated computer programs to create maps of how genes, proteins, metabolisms, and other things like this are related to each other and how their evolution actually occurs and produces useful novelty. This book blew my mind like nothing I've ever read on the subject. It's really fascinating and has some really unexpected stuff.

Then the other one is The Vital Question by biochemist Nick Lane. This dude is a really novel thinker and really goes far in depth into the possible original biochemistry, how it achieved an energetic level high enough to produce complex life, and more.

Both books can get kind of complex. They went over my head many many times, especially the Nick Lane book because he goes deep into the nitty gritty particulars of the biochemistry. But even so, you can get through them without too much difficulty, and both authors have a real gift for describing this stuff. Ultimately both completely blew open my understanding of the subject and made it all so much more interesting.

Edit: also, you can read some of Nick Lane's stuff for free here, especially under the publications tab. Also, he did a really cool study showing that the genome complexity seen in Eukaryotes could not have evolved without the energetic input of mitochondria, and this is one of the main themes of his book. That study is here, and has some really interesting implications for astrobiology, which he talks about in the book too.

If you want a great technical book the subject I encourage you to check out this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Vital-Question-Evolution-Origins-Complex/dp/0393088812

He explains the "metabolism first" hypothesis of the origin of life

There’s a great book about the genetic defects of humans. I imagine the emperor using genetic engineering to fix them all

Apologies for the blaaah link. Will edit when I get to my desktop

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Errors-Panorama-Glitches-Pointless/dp/1328589269/

I highly recommend you read The Quantum Brain (http://www.amazon.com/The-Quantum-Brain-Freedom-Generation/dp/0471441538). It's been many years since I've read it but I'll recall what I can from memory :)

The brain stores memories as patterns of connectivity. Your brain receives input from all the senses, and those stimuli form a static pattern of connectivity between all the neurons that respond. The book uses the analogy of a box of bar magnets mounted frictionlessly to perfectly-balanced axles forming rows obeying the laws of electromagnetism. Each magnet represents a neuron, and the magenetic interplay between them represents inter-neural connections. As a magnetic stimuli (sensory input) is introduced to the edge of the box, the magnets shift as a result and lock into one of several possible patterns based on laws of energy conservation. These patterns are what we perceive as memories. When you are introduced to similar stimuli again, your brain dances around locking into that pattern again, but it could temporarily lock into related but incorrect patterns in its search. I think these false low energy states are considered to be "tip of the tongue" hazy memory moments.

But I'm probably really messing it up. Please read the book. It's awesome. I'm going to go read it again now.

So, in other words, you have your fingers in your ears, singing “La la la”.

The book Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences that I mentioned looks very closely at the brain organizational research mentioned in that paper. It's meticulously researched. If you read the book, or even one chapter of it, you'd be a lot less proud of the paper you're holding up from the journal Hormones and Behavior.

If you're not willing to read, just think a little. Just the other day, we had a story about identical twins, one of whom was trans and one wasn't. Same hormonal wash, same genes, same environment, different trans status. This ought to tell you that it's not as easy and simple as you'd like to imagine.

For bioinorganic, I've used a couple of texts in my classes.

Any book that Harry Gray works on is good in my eyes (I'm biased):
This is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Biological-Inorganic-Chemistry-Structure-Reactivity/dp/1891389432/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376182276&sr=1-1&keywords=bioinorganic+chemistry">one example</a>

But Lippard and Berg also have a very good treatise on bioinorganic chemistry: Another <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Bioinorganic-Chemistry-Stephen-Lippard/dp/0935702725/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376182276&sr=1-2&keywords=bioinorganic+chemistry">Amazon link</a>


sorry- I'm obviously weak on the html. Tried to follow the formatting help, but I'm missing something.

The Brain: A Beginner's Guide is really interesting and easy to read.

I've always found Geoff Nicholl's intro text to be my favorite- it's what I was taught with, and what my friend now use to teach intro to neurosci-

http://www.amazon.com/Neuron-Brain-Cellular-Molecular-Approach/dp/0878934391/ref=pd_sim_b_51

It's a very nuts and bolts approach to the brain from the basics of cellular physiology.

Another good read is David Linden's accidental mind:

http://accidentalmind.org/free_chapters/

I haven't picked it up yet, personally, but I've heard great things about Trail Guide to the Body. There is also Trail Guide to Movement by the same author, and it looks pretty interesting as well. Here is a podcast interview of the author, which is pretty interesting and should give you an idea of what to expect.

I'd suggest a comprehensive anatomy book.

http://www.amazon.com/Grants-Atlas-Anatomy-13th-Anne/dp/1608317560/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344563654&sr=1-1&keywords=grant+atlas+of+anatomy

I can get you a price below Amazon.

• Peacemakers is an excellent book which neatly covers International Diplomacy and the First World War.
  
• Anatomy & Physiology for Dummies was actually quite passable from what I recall. It's a little more technical than most books of that sort given the nature of the subject, but that's probably as close as you can come to something easily accessible.
  
• The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire is a fantastically comprehensive history of the later Roman Empire if that interests you, though Suetonius' Lives is far more accessible, and frankly entertaining as general starting off point for classical history.
  
  I'd also second Sahasrara's suggestion of Guns, Germs, And Steel, it's a fascinating book and well worth your time.

I hope orthotropic treatment will just be more popular in the future.

I read this book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1503604136/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdo_t1_T3tHDb396JN6R

And I have a 4 year old so we are going to go see a dentist that practices orthotropic when he’s around 6.

I got a copy of the book & I’ve already shared it with some other of my mom friends. I feel like spreading the information is a start.

Barron's EZ Anatomy & Physiology, along with Khan Academy, has greatly streamlined my studying. On their own they're probably not enough for an A, but I'd be surprised if you couldn't pass A&P I/II with just those two resources.

https://www.amazon.com/Z-Anatomy-Physiology-Barrons/dp/0764144685

Biological Inorganic Chemistry

My uni had a Bioinorganic Class. It was a lot of fun.

De forskelle der er i dyr kan ikke overføres problemfrit til et væsen med en så udvidet metabevidsthed om dem selv som mennesker. Desuden slås der tvivl om en del af disse studiets validitet, fortolkning og motivationer og afledte konsekvenser, de sidste to mindre vigtige for folk der et 100% naturvidenskabeligt posivistisk indstillet:
http://www.liseeliot.com/pink-brain-blue-brain

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674057309?ie=UTF8&tag=slatmaga-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0674057309

Der er selvfølgelig biologi i vores opførsel, men at benytte deterministiske ideologier om et emne vi simpelthen ikke ved særlig meget om er amoralsk. Vi ved drenge og piger kulturelle roller ændrer sig over tid, vi ved at der stort set ingen generelle totale forskelle er da den stærkeste pige eksempelvis er stærkere end den svageste dreng og det er derfor moralsk angribeligt at mene at vide noget om individer ud fra yderst generelle forskelle (statistik siger ikke noget om enkelte mennesker så brug det ikke som forklaring på alt).

Vi bør ikke lade vores forestillinger om hvad folk kan gøre, indvirke på, hvad de i vores samfund har mulighed for at gøre.

Medical Terminology for Dummies

Anatomy and Physiology for Dummies

Both have 4 1/2 stars...

You created the association that you HAVE to have breast to be a woman. Having small breast doesn't make you any less a woman. Here's a really cool book for you read to find out more: https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Physiology-Dummies-Maggie-Norris/dp/0470923261

Non-mobile: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805395695/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1426092681&sr=8-1&keywords=anatomy+and+physiology+marieb+8th&dpPl=1&dpID=51oYx0qmpDL&ref=plSrch&pi=AC_SY200_QL40

^That's ^why ^I'm ^here, ^I ^don't ^judge ^you. ^PM ^/u/xl0 ^if ^I'm ^causing ^any ^trouble. ^WUT?

Don't bother, you'll get enough of it in med school haha.

As far as I know, one of the gold standards for anatomy is the Frank H Netter material. There's a nice Atlas of Human Anatomy (keep in mind an atlas usually doesn't have information about the functions of any anatomy, just the names), and study cards (even referenced here).

Gray's Anatomy is good (obviously), but really long. The student's version may be shorter/more manageable.

My undergrad class used Grant's Atlas of Anatomy/Grant's Dissector, and a Human Anatomy textbook. They were not bad as well. Anatomy material is always pretty dry.

If you can, maybe see what your school uses? That way you won't start reading and then have to switch to a different book (though I suppose extra reading is never a bad thing).

And congrats again on getting into med school!

Stuart McGill - Ultimate Back Performance (cheaper from www.backfitpro.com)

Gray Cook - Functional Movement Systems: Screening, Assessment, Corrective Strategies

Gray Cook - Athletic Body In Balance

Dan John - Never Let Go

Disclaimer: I haven't read the following recommendations, but I was convinced to read them when I finish my current stash of books.

I don't work in the medical field, but my biggest hobby is powerlifting and I've spend many years doing tons of reading in scientific litterature about training and such. And when I was recommended the followings books by another powerlifter it seemed like a great opportunity to learn more. Biomechanics For Dummies and Anatomy and Physiology For Dummies

I mean artificial neural nets. If you want a great discussion of them, I suggest The Quantum Brain.

If a brain -- and so awareness as you seem to equivocate here -- can arise by an accidental process that just happens to involve insemination and pregnancy, why can't a concerted effort that achieves the birth of a true AI result? To say that it couldn't would be like saying that artificial selection (aka good ol' fashioned breeding, be it pets such as dogs or crops such as corn) is unlikely to be successful even though evolution happens naturally. Seems like that would be a strange hypothesis, doesn't it?

I see its early, and you likely haven't had your coffee yet so you're feeling a little salty. Here's a resource to help you out with any of your further questions. Have a great day. : )

https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Physiology-Dummies-Maggie-Norris/dp/0470923261

Some more flaws catalogued in this book.

I taught A&P at a college. Trust me dude, you will need to quit to make it happen. A&P is so much memorization you might not even be able to get an A in the summer class if you are taking micro also. This is just one part of the body, you will likely have a 1-2 days to memorize this entire thing, then move on to similar, then memorize hormones, etc. http://www.codex99.com/anatomy/images/netter/neck_lg.jpg

You could do it but you would have to start learning beforehand. The best most complete book is Netter's (http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Human-Anatomy-Professional-NetterReference-com/dp/1455758884/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1452179938&sr=8-2&keywords=netter), many med schools use it. For a class like yours you would have to memorize all the muscles, but probably not the arteries and veins. Then maybe the major nerves, but its the the teachers call on the small stuff like that.

Maynard Smith is always good to carry to your next college bible study.

This book taught me more than trying to slog through my actual textbook

This is a great perspective: Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes https://www.amazon.com/dp/1328974693/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_0486CbBEQ3FBG

I see a guy that does trigger point work, told me to get this book https://www.amazon.com/Trail-Guide-Body-Locate-Muscles/dp/0982978650/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537202882&sr=8-1&keywords=trail+guide+to+the+body+5th+edition
Shows trigger points, shows pain areas and the muscles that cause the pain and how to release them.

From Neuron to Brain is a concise yet thorough introduction to the field. If you don't feel like getting Kandel or Squire, this should do. It's meant to be read through chapter to chapter.

As a hospital security officer, I rarely approach any situation without putting gloves on. A couple of pairs in a keeper pouch is a good idea, but almost every hospital in the US has a glove dispenser and a hand sanitizer station within a few steps of wherever you may be at any time. When dealing with psych patients, remember it's the illness talking, not the person. Compassion is a big the biggest part of hospital security.

Keep an extra uniform at work. This is actually a requirement at the hospital I work at. Keep a Vick's Inhaler handy, a couple quick snorts will get funky smells out of your nose in a jiffy. There are lots of funky smells at the hospital.

If you stay there and decide you like the hospital setting, I'd advise you to pick up a copy of Dean Vaughn's Medical Terminology and Baron's E-Z Anatomy & Physiology. It will make following the conversations taking place around you much easier, and those two books present it in a very easy to learn manner.

Have you read the Vital Question by Nick Lane? What are your thoughts on its thesis?

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Brain-Search-Freedom-Generation/dp/0471441538