The rise of a dark industry: How corpse thieves played a key role in revolutionizing medicine
An undated handout picture released on February 4, 2013 from the University of Leicester shows the full skull of the skeleton of king Richard III found at the Grey Friars Church excavation site in Leicester (AFP Photo/-)
John Hopton for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Like finding out that Newton was probably not alerted to the laws of gravity by an apple falling on his head (and finding out that he was a great, big tool), we are sometimes reminded that the history of science is not as tidy and romantic as we…