Human Errors
- Author Nathan H. Lents
- Narrator L. J. Ganser
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 7 hours and 54 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Anatomy, Anthropology, Evolution, Genetics (non-medical), Human biology, Popular medicine and health, Popular science.
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What to expect
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.
Read by L.J. Ganser
(p) Tantor Media 2018
Critics Review
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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
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
THE TIMES -
Chatty and humorous… After reading Human Errors, nobody will see their body in the same way again
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
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
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