Under these instructions appeared the words "Read carefully at home the next three chapters and be prepared to answer all the questions at the back".
The next three chapters compare the human senses of smell, vision, and hearing with those of other creatures.
Once having identified the three major tools for the study and understanding of our origins, paleoanthropology, genomics, and evolutionary theory, in the next three chapters (2 4), DeSalle and Tattersall describe each of these avenues of research.
"I'm hoping you and I will both emerge from the next nine chapters slightly different and slightly better," Brooks writes, slightly modestly.
They spend much of the next two chapters on a road trip across western Russia, apparently untroubled by the fact that their archenemy is still alive.
"What have I done?" It was a question many readers would come to ask over the next seven chapters as he looked on helplessly while Alice mistreated Nellie.
But the next four chapters are "Going to the doctor", "Having lunch with your parents", "Bunking off" and "Shopping", as if the original organising principle were insufficiently strong to sustain a book and so arbitrary choice has been resorted to.
The next nine chapters detail Annie's simultaneous disillusionment and quest for independence as she becomes "a young lady" (a very suspect category), a star student in a rigidly British educational system, and her mother's loved and hated antagonist.
After a promising introduction, readers are left to plod through the next fourteen chapters, each of which details, in the same order, the toxicology, availability, famous real-life cases, and Christie's fictional use of arsenic, strychnine, cyanide, and eleven other poisons.
Maybe I was in a Team Jacob stronghold, or maybe the whole goth-emo-bloodsucker craze is starting to wane, but the producers of the "Twilight" movies may face a bit of a dilemma in the next two chapters if audience sentiment turns against the eternal love of Edward and Bella in favor of the slightly more conventional mammalian match between Bella and Jacob.
The next two chapters deal with the development of bodies.
