The species that changed itself : how prosperity reshaped humanity / Edwin Gale.
Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2021Description: xiii, 355 pages.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141984988.Subject(s): Human beings -- Effect of environment on
| Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Human evolution -- Popular works | Human ecology | Adaptation (Physiology) | Social change | WealthDDC classification: 304.2 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 304.2 GAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 020295 |
"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.