The Monkey in the Mirror
Essays on the Science of what Makes Us Human
Description:... Some of the most controversial questions in evolutionary history are taken up in this collection of essays. Ian Tattersall stresses that living creatures, including humans, are not finely engineered organisms with every component perfectly adapted to their function. We are - on the contrary - jury-rigged, improvised beings, owing as much to chance as to adaptation. And this is true of all living creatures.
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