Nathan H. Lents is professor of biology and director of the Macaulay Honors College at John Jay College, part of the City University of New York. He is the author of
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (2018). Lents also maintains the Human Evolution Blog and writes for
Psychology Today under the tagline “Beastly Behavior: How Evolution Shaped Our Minds and Bodies.”
4 Ebooks por Nathan H. Lents
Nathan H. Lents: Not So Different
Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold ‘funerals’ for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocab …
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Nathan H. Lents: Human Errors
We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved. But if we are evolution’s greatest creation, why are we so badly designed? We have retinas that face backward, we must find vitamins and nutrients in …
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Nathan H. Lents: Human Errors
A biology professor’s "funny, fascinating" tour of the physical imperfections-from faulty knees to junk DNA-that make us human (Discover). We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evo …
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Nathan H. Lents: The Sexual Evolution
We find ourselves in a time of great social upheaval. People are testing the boundaries of just about everything related to sex and gender. Biological sex, long thought to be a simple binary, is now …
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