Mutants - On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body

Harper Perrennial, London, 2005.

Why are most of us born with one nose, two legs, ten fingers and twenty-four ribs and some of us not? . . . Leroi takes us to the extremes of human mutation - from the grotesque to the beautiful, and often both at the same time - to explain how we become what we are...