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Lents, Nathan H.
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Human physiology.
Human evolution.
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Lents, Nathan H.
Human physiology.
Human evolution.
MARC Display
Human
errors
: a
panorama
of
our
glitches
, from
pointless
bones
to
broken
genes
/ Nathan H. Lents.
by
Lents, Nathan H.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Call #:
612 L574h
Subjects
Human
physiology.
Human
evolution.
ISBN:
9781328974693 (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 233 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: behold the blunders of nature --
Pointless
bones
and other anatomical
errors
--
Our
needy diet -- Junk in the genome -- Homo sterilis -- Why God invented doctors -- A species of suckers -- Epilogue: the future of humanity.
Summary:
"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 often--two hundred times more often than a dog? 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. As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in
Human
Errors
,
our
evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last. The
human
body, perhaps evolution's greatest creation, 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 informative tour of humans' four-billion-year-long evolutionary saga,
Human
Errors
both celebrates
our
imperfections and offers an unconventional accounting of the cost of
our
success."--From publisher.
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