Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

by Nathan H. Lents

In other words, human bodies and brains have not changed much in the past twelve thousand years. This is a kind way of saying that we are not adapted to this life. We are adapted to Pleistocene life. And perhaps nowhere is this clearer than in the way we perceive the world around us.