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EVOLUTION GONE WRONG by Alexander Bezzerides

Alexander Bezzerides . Unknown Year . English

"A fantastic, informative book… I recommend Evolution Gone Wrong highly to anyone wishing to grasp the mix of biological and cultural forces at work on our anatomy today." —NPR "Alex Bezzerides…is fascinated with the imperfect system that is the human body, and he explores and explains it adroitly in his fascinating, funny new book." —Salon The flaws in our anatomy raise more than a few questions. Why is it that human mothers risk their lives giving birth? Why are there medical specialties for teeth and feet? And why is it that human babies can’t hold their heads up, but horses trot around minutes after they’re born? This detailed foray into the twists and turns of our ancestral past includes no shortage of curiosity and humor to find answers. In this funny, wide-ranging and often surprising book, biologist Alex Bezzerides tells us just where we inherited our adaptable, achy, brilliant bodies in the process of evolution.

Categories: Literary Fiction

About the Author

Alex Bezzerides is a professor of biology at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho where he teaches a wide range of classes from Human Anatomy and Physiology to Entomology. He earned degrees from Colorado State University and Cornell University and taught at a small college in Wisconsin for a few years before moving back west. He has published a number of scientific articles about the chemical ecology of insects. These days, he uses his understanding of evolution and anatomy to explain, in a fun and approachable way, why the human body works the way it does. "Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)" is his first book.

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