Screen LibraryPrimate change : how the world we made is remaking us /
A wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human body has changed since humankind first got up on two feet. Spanning the entirety of human history - from primate to transhuman - Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book investigates where we came from, who we are today and how modern technology will cha...
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Cassell, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group,
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London : New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
A wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human body has changed since humankind first got up on two feet. Spanning the entirety of human history - from primate to transhuman - Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book investigates where we came from, who we are today and how modern technology will change us beyond recognition. In the last two hundred years, humans have made such a tremendous impact on the world that our geological epoch is about to be declared the 'Anthropocene', or the Age of Man. But while we have been busy changing the shape of the world we inhabit, the ways of living that we ha |
| Carrier Form: | 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-311) and index. |
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9781788400220 1788400224 9781788400787 178840078X |
| Index Number: | GN281 |
| CLC: | Q981.1-02 |
| Call Number: | Q981.1-02/C913 |
| Contents: | What becomes you? -- Part I. 500,000,000-30,000 BCE : Primates change : movement, mechanics & migrations. Getting up & running ; Stand up. Winding back -- Part II. 30,000 BCE-1700 CE : Seeds, settlements & cities. Planting seeds, processing food & life under cover ; Soil, toil & growth ; Exercise, ergonomics & life & death in the city. Winding back -- Part III. 1700-1910 : Mines, spines, smoke & steam. Developing (bad) work habits ; Early air pollution - or The big choke. Winding back -- Part IV. 1910-present : The sedentary or "digital" revolution. The waist land ; Drowning in air. Winding |