Human Errors (ePub)
A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
(Sprache: Englisch)
An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head...
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An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so oftentwo hundred times more often than a dog does?How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake. Asprofessor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains inHuman Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last. The human body is one big pile of compromises. But that is also a testament to our greatness: as Lents shows, humans have so many design flaws precisely because we are very, very good at getting around them. A rollicking, deeply informativetour of humans' four billion year long evolutionary saga,Human Errorsboth celebrates our imperfections and offers an unconventional accounting of the cost of our success.
Autoren-Porträt von Nathan H. Lents
NATHAN H. LENTS is a professor of biology at John Jay College at CUNY and is the author of Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals. He has appeared as a scientific expert in national media, including The Today Show, NPR, and 48 Hours.
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- Autor: Nathan H. Lents
- 2018, 256 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: HMH Books
- ISBN-10: 1328974677
- ISBN-13: 9781328974679
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2018
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