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Gale, Edwin A. M.,

The species that changed itself : how prosperity reshaped humanity / Edwin Gale. - xiii, 355 pages

"An Allen Lane book" -- back cover. "First published in the United States of America by Allen Lane 2020" -- t.p. verso.

I. The great escape -- The Promethean moment -- Charlemagne's elephant -- The road to Rabbit Island -- The invention that fed the world -- II. Plasticity -- The discovery of human plasticity -- Matrix -- Life before birth -- Growing tall -- Performance -- Designer phenotypes -- The fat of the land -- III. Life's journey -- At home in the multiverse -- The retreat of infectious disease -- The final frontier -- Fastened to a dying animal -- IV. Changing our minds -- The milk of human kindness -- New minds and old -- V. Living together -- The domestication of the human species -- Changing phenotype, changing society.

ISBN: 9780141984988

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC1I4810 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020386070 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human beings--Effect of environment on.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Human evolution--Popular works.
Human ecology.
Adaptation (Physiology)
Social change.
Wealth.

Dewey Class. No.: 304.2