Human Errors

A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

Nathan Lents (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2020
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-1-4746-0835-0 (ISBN)

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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

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.

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: Finding Human Nature in Animals. www.nathanlents.com @nathanlents

Erscheinungsdatum	07.05.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 198 mm
Gewicht	229 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
ISBN-10	1-4746-0835-3 / 1474608353
ISBN-13	978-1-4746-0835-0 / 9781474608350
Zustand	Neuware