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Human Errors - A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (Paperback)
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Human Errors - A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (Paperback)
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We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if
we are evolution's greatest creation, why are we so badly designed?
We have retinas that face backward, the stump of a tail, and way
too many bones in our wrists. We must find vitamins and nutrients
in our diets that other animals simply make for themselves.
Millions of us can't reproduce successfully without help from
modern science. We have nerves that take bizarre paths, muscles
that attach to nothing, and lymph nodes that do more harm than
good. And that's just the beginning of the story. As biologist
Nathan H. Lents explains, our evolutionary history is a litany of
mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last. As
we will discover, by exploring human shortcomings, we can peer into
our past, because each of our flaws tells a story about our
species' evolutionary history. A rollicking, deeply informative
tour of our four-billion-year-long evolutionary saga, Human Errors
both celebrates our imperfections - for our mutations are, in their
own way, a testament to our species' greatness - and offers an
unconventional accounting of the cost of our success.
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