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Human Errors
A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
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Artikel-Nr:
9781474608350
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.05.2020
Seiten:
233
Autor:
Nathan Lents
Gewicht:
229 g
Format:
198x130x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Nathan H. Lents is a professor of biology at John Jay College at The City University of New York. He is the author of NOT SO DIFFERENT and HUMAN ERRORS.
We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved. But if we are evolution's greatest creation, why are we so badly designed? We have retinas that face backward, we must find vitamins and nutrients in our diets that other animals simply make for themselves and millions of us can't reproduce successfully without help from modern science. And that's just the beginning of the story. Biologist Nathan H. Lents takes us on an entertaining and illuminating tour of our four-billion-year-long evolutionary saga, and shows us how each of our flaws tells us a story about our species' history.
An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections, from faulty knees to junk DNA, that make us human - and a unique approach to telling our evolutionary history