Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution - Tapa blanda

Wills, Christopher

 
9780738201689: Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution
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ISBN 10: 0738201685 ISBN 13: 9780738201689
Editorial: Basic Books, 1999

Sinopsis

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 earth's 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 brain's 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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Acerca del autor

Christopher Wills is Professor of Biology at the University of California at San Diego. His books include Yellow Fever, Black Goddess and Children of Prometheus. Jeffrey Bada is Professor of Marine Chemistry and Director of the NASA Specialized centre of Research and Training in Exobiology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

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Editorial
Basic Books
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0738201685
ISBN 13 
9780738201689
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
324
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