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“Human Errors: A Conversation About Evolution’s Mistakes” Book Talk | SF Main Library

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Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Cost: FREE
San Francisco Main Public Library | 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102

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San Francisco Public Library is pleased to bring biology professor and forensic scientist Dr. Nathan Lents to the Main Library for a talk titled “Human Errors: A Conversation About Evolution’s Mistakes”.

For such “highly evolved creatures,” humans harbor a surprising number of glitches, quirks, and outright flaws. They have retinas that face backward, the stump of a tail, muscles that attach to nothing, and nerves that take bizarre paths. They must find vitamins and nutrients in their diets that other animals simply make for themselves. Millions of them can’t reproduce successfully without help from modern science. As biologist Nathan H. Lents explain in his new book, Human Errors, the evolutionary history is a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last.

Join in as idea innovator and host of the “Curious Minds” podcast Gayle Allen leads a discussion of the many shortcomings. Rather than a source of sorrow and despair, the many quirks serve as windows into the topsy-turvy history of the evolution past.

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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Lectures & Workshops
Address: 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102