Being Human: How our biology shaped world history | Agenda Bookshop Skip to content
Selected Colleen Hoover Books at €9.99c | In-store & Online
Selected Colleen Hoover Books at €9.99c | In-store & Online
A01=Lewis Dartnell
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Lewis Dartnell
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBG
Category=HBTB
Category=JHM
Category=PDZ
Category=PSX
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
softlaunch

Being Human: How our biology shaped world history

English

By (author): Lewis Dartnell

'Illuminating' TIM MARSHALL, bestselling author of The Future of Geography
'Refreshing' THOMAS HALLIDAY, bestselling author of Otherlands

Our biology will change how you see the world. Lewis Dartnell explores how human biology has shaped relationships, societies, economies and wars across the globe

How did haemophilia bring down the Russian royal family? And scurvy give rise to the Mafia?

We are a wonder of evolution. Our exceptional abilities created life as we know it, but we're also deeply flawed. This extraordinary contradiction between our faculties and frailties is the essence of what it means to be human. And history has played out in the balance between them.

Here, Lewis Dartnell tells our story through the lens of this uniquely fragile nature for the first time. From cognitive biases to endemic diseases, he explores how human biology has shaped relationships, societies, economies and wars across the globe - and considers how, importantly, it continues to challenge and define our progress.

'A gripping, red-blooded narrative from a master storyteller' JO MARCHANT, author of Cure
'A wild ride' TIM HARFORD, author of How to Make the World Add Up

See more
Current price €25.65
Original price €28.50
Save 10%
A01=Lewis DartnellAge Group_UncategorizedAuthor_Lewis Dartnellautomatic-updateCategory1=Non-FictionCategory=HBGCategory=HBTBCategory=JHMCategory=PDZCategory=PSXCOP=United KingdomDelivery_Delivery within 10-20 working daysLanguage_EnglishPA=AvailablePrice_€20 to €50PS=Activesoftlaunch
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Product Details
  • Weight: 580g
  • Dimensions: 164 x 242mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781847926708

About Lewis Dartnell

Lewis Dartnell is an astrobiology researcher and professor at the University of Westminster and also an Honorary Research Associate at University College London (UCL). He is the author of the bestselling books The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch and Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History which has been translated into 26 languages. He writes for the Guardian The Times and New Scientist. Copies of The Knowledge exist on the surface of the Moon and in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Customer Reviews

Be the first to write a review
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are understand this. Learn more
Accept