Primate Change, Vybarr CreganReid
Primate Change, Vybarr CreganReid
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Primate Change
How the world we made is remaking us

Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Narrator: Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Unabridged: 11 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brazen

Published: 09/20/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN.

PRIMATE CHANGE is 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 have been building have, as if under the cover of darkness, been transforming our bodies and altering the expression of our DNA, too.

PRIMATE CHANGE beautifully unscrambles the complex architecture of our modern human bodies, built over millions of years and only starting to give up on us now.

'Our bodies are in a shock. Modern living is as bracing to the human body as jumping through a hole in the ice. Our bodies do not know what century they were born into and they are defending and deforming themselves in response'

(p) 2018 Octopus Publishing Group

About Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Vybarr Cregan-Reid is an author and academic. He is Reader in English & Environmental Humanities in the School of English at the University of Kent. His most recent book is Footnotes: How Running Makes us Human (Ebury 2016, paperback June 2017), which reviewers called 'delightful', 'impassioned and energetic', and 'a blazing achievement'. He has written widely on the subjects of literature, health, nature and the environment for the BBC, the Guardian, The Independent, The Big Issue, The Telegraph, The Mail, The Washington Post, The I Newspaper, Wanderlust, Literary Review, New Zealand Herald and he has appeared on Radio 4 and Sky News.


Reviews

This challenging, thought provoking book traces the changes we have made to our environment and lifestyle ever since homo sapiens first emerged as a kind of grassland ape. The author convincingly shows how everything from growing levels of depression, obesity and diabetes to the increase in diagnose......more

Goodreads review by Buck

Our man Vybarr specializes in English and Environmental studies, which I consider one stroke for and one against. Add in that he's British and an academic and it's amazing I picked the book up at all. To say nothing of my leeriness about the title being a slant-rhyme pun on climate change made my sk......more

Goodreads review by Reyna

This was kind of my dream book - anthropology for the lay person! I even like anthropology for non-anthropologists, but this was just perfect. So well written, witty even. Also, I have always hated sitting for long periods of time (i.e., more than an hour), and it makes perfect sense. But there is n......more

Goodreads review by Rama

Climate Effects on Human Evolution Life moves fast; but the biological evolution is slow. Small anatomical changes have occurred in the last 250,000 years of human history, but they are insignificant and marginal. But technological advancement has significant impact on the behavioral adaptation that......more