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Anatomy & Physiology, Biology

How Humans Speak—and Why Chimps Don’t

Posted on 3/31/23 by Sarah Boudreau

We humans think we’re pretty special as far as animals go, and one thing that makes us unique is our ability to communicate super complex ideas through language and, ultimately, speech itself. Human speech is an important part of everyday life but ...

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Anatomy & Physiology

The Biome Inside You: An Introduction to Gut Flora

10/21/22 by Sarah Boudreau

The nineteenth century poet Walt Whitman famously wrote “I am large, I contain multitudes,” and though he wrote that over a hundred years before ...

Anatomy & Physiology

Beyond Just XX or XY: The Complexities of Biological Sex

7/22/22 by Sarah Boudreau

One of the reasons human biology is so interesting is because it’s so complex; rarely are there neat answers. We’re often taught that when it comes ...

Anatomy & Physiology, Biology

Mitosis and Meiosis: What's the Difference?

7/11/22 by Laura Snider

Did you know that right now, inside your body, some of your cells are making copies of themselves? Don’t worry—that’s normal. Your cells need to make ...

Anatomy & Physiology

Let's Untangle This: All About Hair

6/29/22 by Laura Snider

Shampooing, conditioning, curling, straightening, trimming, coloring, shaving, plucking, waxing...it can take a lot of effort to groom the hair on ...

Anatomy & Physiology

Osteon Powers: A Dive into Compact Bone’s Functional and Structural Unit

6/10/22 by Sarah Boudreau

Today on the Visible Body Blog, we’re talking about osteons! As the functional and structural unit of compact bone, the osteon is responsible for the ...

Anatomy & Physiology, Technology in Anatomy Education, Lesson Plans, Technology in Education

Free Lesson Plan: Learning the Liver

6/3/22 by Sarah Boudreau

Today on the Visible Body Blog, we’ll walk through a lesson plan centered around the liver! This lesson uses collaboration and the 3D tools in ...

Anatomy & Physiology

Anatomical Variations of the Circulatory System

5/20/22 by Sarah Boudreau

The human body doesn’t always look like it does in textbook illustrations. The term anatomical variant refers to deviations from the norm that don’t ...

Anatomy & Physiology, Biology

How—and Why—Do Humans Walk Upright?

2/25/22 by Sarah Boudreau

Walking is something that many of us take for granted, but it’s more complex than you might think. Today on the Visible Body blog, we’ll look at the ...

Anatomy & Physiology

It’s Electric!: The Cardiac Conduction System

2/11/22 by Sarah Boudreau

The healthy heart pumps five to six liters of blood every minute—if you’re like me and visualized that as three two-liter soda bottles, you know ...

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