Primate Change - Vybarr Cregan-Reid

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'