Nathan Lents (Books)

Nathan Lents Books

Nathan H. Lents is a professor of biology and director of the Honors College at John Jay College of the City University of New York. His research, published in leading science journals, explores evolutionary biology and how evolution has shaped the human mind and body. Through his blogs and popular press articles, Lents aims to make complex scientific concepts accessible to a broad audience, offering an engaging perspective on human nature from an evolutionary standpoint.

Human Errors

256 pages
9 hours of reading

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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 our diets that other animals simply make for themselves and millions of us can't reproduce successfully without help from modern science. And that's just the beginning of the story. Biologist Nathan H. Lents takes us on an entertaining and illuminating tour of our four-billion-year-long evolutionary saga, and shows us how each of our flaws tells us a story about our species' history.