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008			171124s2018 mauab b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2017046396
020			_a9781328974693 (hardback)
040			_aDLC _beng _cUniversity of Cebu-Banilad _erda _dDLC
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100	1		_aLents, Nathan H., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHuman errors : _ba panorama of our glitches, from pointless bones to broken genes / _cNathan H. Lents.
264		1	_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, _cc2018.
300			_axiii, 233 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index.
505			_aContents: Introductions: Behold the blunders of nature -- Pointless bones and other anatomical errors -- Our needy diet -- Junk in the Genome -- Homo sterilis -- Why God invented doctors -- A species of suckers -- Epilogue: The future of humanity -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.
520			_a"An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections--from faulty knees to junk DNA--that make us human. We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often--two hundred times more often than a dog? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake. As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last. The human body, perhaps evolution's greatest creation, is one big pile of compromises. But that is also a testament to our greatness: as Lents shows, humans have so many design flaws precisely because we are very, very good at getting around them. A rollicking, deeply informative tour of humans' four-billion-year-long evolutionary saga,Human Errors both celebrates our imperfections and offers an unconventional accounting of the cost of our success"--
541			_hP 1,195.00 _xJunrel Capuno _yJunior High School _zScience
546			_aEnglish
650		0	_aHuman physiology.
650		0	_aHuman evolution.
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General. _2bisacsh
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aLents, Nathan H., author. _tHuman errors _dBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 _z9781328974679 _w(DLC) 2017057190
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