Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution - Rilegato

Wills, Christopher

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ISBN 10: 0738200034 ISBN 13: 9780738200033

Casa editrice: Perseus Books, 1998

Riassunto

}Are we still evolving? Scientists have grappled with this question since the time of Darwin. Now, in this provocative book, biologist Christopher Wills argues that we are not only continuing to evolve but that our pace of change is accelerating. He examines the rapid, short-term evolutionary change taking place in people living at the earths extremes (even as babies, Tibetans can draw in more oxygen than lowlanders), and the new physiology of those who participate in extreme sports. But the more we shape our environment, the more it seems to shape us: Whether the future has us wiring our brains into vast electronic databases, or popping smart drugs that alter the brains very biochemical structure, new environmental pressures are speeding up our evolution in ways that we cannot now predict but that will help us to survive the future. }

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Book by Wills Christopher

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Perseus Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0738200034
• ISBN 13: 9780738200033
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile