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.
9780141984988
GBC1I4810 bnb
020386070 Uk
Human beings--Effect of environment on. Nature--Effect of human beings on. Human evolution--Popular works. Human ecology. Adaptation (Physiology) Social change. Wealth.