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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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Published: 28/05/2020
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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.

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781474608350
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 220 g
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 22 mm


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HUMAN ERRORS is outstanding, scholarly yet entertaining. Perhaps inadvertently, this funny book argues that if there is an intelligent designer, he is comically hopeless - ADAM RUTHERFORD

An entertaining and enlightening guide to human imperfections - Clive Cookson, FINANCIAL TIMES

Spry, plausible, free from jargon and much better than the usual run of popular science and medical books, which are destined to be shelved in the den of geek, Human Errors is the most enjoyable anatomical study since Jonathan Miller's The Body in Question - Roger Lewis, THE TIMES

Chatty and humorous... After reading Human Errors, nobody will see their body in the same way again - William Hartston, DAILY EXPRESS

Like any theme park horror house, it's a thoroughly entertaining ride, crammed full of the bizarre and enlightening and ripe with facts with which to wow dinner party guests - Katie Burton, GEOGRAPHICAL

In Human Errors, Nathan Lents explores our biological imperfections with style, wit and life-affirming insight. You'll finish it with new appreciation for those human failings that, in so many surprising ways, helped shape our remarkable species - DEBORAH BLUM, author of The Poisoner's Handbook

An insightful and entertaining romp through the myriad ways in which the human body falls short of an engineering ideal - and the often surprising reasons why - IAN TATTERSALL, author of Masters of the Planet

Anyone who has aged without perfect grace can attest to the laundry list of imperfections so thoroughly and engagingly considered in Human Errors. This is the best book I've read on how poorly designed our bodies are. I learned something new on every page - MICHAEL SHERMER, author of Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain

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“An entertaining yet informative study of our evolution”

I came across this on NetGalley but as it had already been published I decided to purchase a copy for myself as I haven't bought a medical text for a few months. I am always drawn to books with a medical element... More

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