TY - BOOK AU - Gale,Edwin A.M. TI - The species that changed itself: how prosperity reshaped humanity SN - 9780141984988 U1 - 304.2 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Human beings KW - Effect of environment on KW - Nature KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Human evolution KW - Popular works KW - Human ecology KW - Adaptation (Physiology) KW - Social change KW - Wealth N1 - "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 ER -