“In one small region—less than 1 percent of the body—the neck concentrates both the vitality and the vulnerability of the human condition,” Mr. Dunlap, a professor of biology at Trinity ...

Yet, for all its aesthetic and expressive potency, the neck is also a site of fear and deep vulnerability. Villains and ...

That day at the wheel, I realized that it was not unlike the human neck. Though only a small portion of the human body – about 1% by surface area – our necks have an outsize influence on our ...