NATHAN H. LENTS is a professor of biology at John Jay College, CUNY and the author of Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals. He has appeared as a scientific expert in a range of national media, including The Today Show, NPR, Access Hollywood, 48 Hours, and Al Jazeera America. He lives in Queens, NY.
发表于2024-11-23
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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 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 Human Errors, our evolutionary history is 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 long evolutionary saga, Human Errors both celebrates our imperfections and offers an unconventional accounting of the cost of our success.
这里的human error主要说的是人体的design flaw. 前4章可读性非常高, 内容丰富, 特别好看(解剖学上不科学的地方, 人体对饮食里的营养素的需要, 基因里大量无用片段, 人类生育器官的不科学之处), 后面2章和epilogue就感觉离题, 开始讲自身免疫疾病, 神经学和认知, 这个感觉算不上是design flaw. Epilogue就完全哲学, 开始讲immortality和scientific optimism, 最后再扯说science如果毁灭了人类是人类最大的flaw, 来扣human error的题, 感觉也是很牵强了. 书的语言风格很随便, 不过居然出现了octopi这样的词...
评分4星内容,5星文笔。计划买一本实体书收藏。
评分这里的human error主要说的是人体的design flaw. 前4章可读性非常高, 内容丰富, 特别好看(解剖学上不科学的地方, 人体对饮食里的营养素的需要, 基因里大量无用片段, 人类生育器官的不科学之处), 后面2章和epilogue就感觉离题, 开始讲自身免疫疾病, 神经学和认知, 这个感觉算不上是design flaw. Epilogue就完全哲学, 开始讲immortality和scientific optimism, 最后再扯说science如果毁灭了人类是人类最大的flaw, 来扣human error的题, 感觉也是很牵强了. 书的语言风格很随便, 不过居然出现了octopi这样的词...
评分The glitches that make us whole and real...
评分The glitches that make us whole and real...
Human Errors 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书