The visible human :The Scientist [2007-08-01]


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The visible human In 1991, Vic Spitzer and David Whitlock at the University of Colorado at Boulder went hunting for cadavers - one male, one female. It took two years to find bodies that were considered normal - meaning of feasible proportions (no more than six feet tall, 20 inches wide, and 14 inches deep), and no history of cancer, operations, transplants, or implants. "A normal cadaver is an oxymoron, because