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How did scientific thinkers learn more about human anatomy?

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"Textbooks often provide carefully labeled diagrams of the anatomical structure of humans. Early scientific thinkers had to create these diagrams, meaning that they had to observe the structures directly."

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"The first documented scientific dissections on the human body are carried out as early as the third century B.C. in Alexandria. At that time, anatomists explore anatomy through dissections of animals, primarily pigs and monkeys. "

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