{"product_id":"human-errors-a-panorama-of-our-glitches-from-pointless-bones-to-broken-genes-paperback","title":"Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNathan H. Lents\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA biology professor's illuminating tour of the physical imperfections--from faulty knees to junk DNA--that make us human.  \"A funny, fascinating catalog of our collective shortcomings that's tough to put down.\"--\u003cem\u003eDiscover\u003c\/em\u003e   \u003c\/strong\u003eWe 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 does? 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 \u003cem\u003eHuman Errors\u003c\/em\u003e, our evolutionary history is indeed nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last. The human body 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-and-counting evolutionary saga, \u003cem\u003eHuman Errors\u003c\/em\u003e both celebrates our imperfections and offers an unconventional accounting of the cost of our success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNATHAN H. LENTS is a professor of biology at John Jay College at CUNY and is the author of \u003ci\u003eNot So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals\u003c\/i\u003e. He has appeared as a scientific expert in national media, including \u003ci\u003eThe Today Show, \u003c\/i\u003e NPR\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e48 Hours\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52759931715891,"sku":"9781328589262","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WC9ETStqMlpreEVobkZ5SGFVWlBiUT09.webp?v=1764475325","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/human-errors-a-panorama-of-our-glitches-from-pointless-bones-to-broken-genes-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}