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Dr. Keith Harrison. Your Body - The Fish That Evolved
YOUR BODY
Preface
Contents
The human pedigree
What we inherit from our invertebrate ancestors
Timing
Science, Religion and Rocks
What is not science?
Fossils
Evolution, Darwin and Natural Selection
Darwin
Natural selection
Natural selection of behavior
Survival of the fittest
Genes
Mutations
Blood groups
Teams of genes
Evolution in Practice
Evolution is not a perfectionist
‘Nature abhors a vacuum’
Evolution never sleeps
When We Were Fish
Fins
Jaws
Fins to limbs
Lungs
The move to dry land
Ears
What we inherit from our fish ancestors
When We Were Amphibians
Limbs
Fingers and toes
What we inherit from our amphibian ancestors
When We Were Reptiles
The march of the reptiles
Limbs and spine
Elbows and knees
What we inherit from our reptile ancestors
Mammals
Mammary glands
Hair
Limbs and the spine
Why we can shrug our shoulders
Why we ride horses not cats
Speed and toe loss
Warm blood
Male gonads
What we inherit from our four-legged mammal ancestors
Mammals
The primate hand
Arm mobility
Seeing in 3D
Standing upright
Male genitalia
What we inherit from our tree-dwelling primate ancestors
‘Hominids’
The human cradle
Out of Africa
Your Body Today
Arm
Hand
Leg
Feet
Face
Senses
Eyes
Ears
Hair
Male-pattern baldness
Heat control
Body shapes
Disposable organs
Tonsils
Appendix
Why do men have nipples?
Behaviour
To sleep: perchance to dream
Your Body’s Problems
Heart
Teeth
Hernias
Wearing out
Ageing
Ageing and genes
Ageing and natural selection
Your Brain
Homo sapiens ‘Wise man’
The nature of intelligence
What we exclude from ‘intelligence’
Knowledge and intelligence
Curiosity and intelligence
Language and intelligence
Intelligence versus intelligent behaviour
Intelligence as a way of thinking
Reasoning and intelligence
Originality and intelligence
Imagination and intelligence
Technology and intelligence
Genes and intelligence
So… what is ‘intelligence’?
Artificial intelligence
Future Evolution of the Human Body
Natural attrition
Social support
Mate selection
Race
Culture
Disease
War
New inventions
Genetically modified organisms
Genetically modified humans
Planetary birdstrike
Evolution of the non-human body
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