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02736aam a22003498i 4500 001 941325E2E23911EC9D80461122ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220602010055 008 220410s2022 ncu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022009215 020 $a 1476686122 020 $a 9781476686127 035 $a (OCoLC)1281246469 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GN281 L89 2022 082 00 $a 599.93/8 $2 23/eng/20220418 100 1 $a Luykx, Peter, $d 1937- $e author. 245 14 $a The patchwork human : $b two billion years of evolution / $c Peter Luykx. 263 $a 2206 264 1 $a Jefferson, North Carolina : $b McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, $c [2022] 300 $a 1 volume : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The patchwork human, old and new parts -- The human machine -- Cells, genes, and other small parts -- The embryo: construction and continuity -- Evolution: the process -- Evolution: the pattern -- Bigger is sometimes better -- Bilateral symmetry -- The sexy beast, part I -- Up the mammalian path -- Fur -- A warm-blooded animal -- Upright living -- The brain -- The sexy beast, part II -- On being social -- The truly musical animal -- The talkative ape -- Human races, real and imagined -- The future of the only remaining human species. 520 $a "Life itself began about four billion years ago on our four-and-a-half-billion-year-old planet. Like an old patchwork quilt, evolution stitched the human being together from parts of ancient species now long extinct. Like any species, humans have hundreds or even thousands of traits that have been passed down through time. The evolutionary age of our different traits can be told from how widely distributed they are among today's living creatures. The book aims to explain some human traits and how we--as social, sexual, language-obsessed technological apes--evolved into our own modern species. Combining hard science with philosophical thought, this work aims to explain where humans have come from, and where we are going. Free of complicated jargon, it breaks down the concept of evolution starting with the human body's most basic component--our cells. Building from there, chapters explore which traits became inherited over evolutionary time, ultimately projecting what could be next for our species"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Human evolution. 650 0 $a Genetics. 650 0 $a Human evolution $x Philosophy. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220802020726.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=941325E2E23911EC9D80461122ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search