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Humanology : a scientist's guide to our amazing existence /

By: O'Neill, Luke A. J., Prof [author.].
Publisher: Dublin : Gill Books, 2018Description: 340 p. : col. ill., plates ; 28 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780717180158 :.Subject(s): Life (Biology) | Science | Human beings | Curiosities and wonders | Sex | Questions and answers | DeathDDC classification: 612 ONE
Contents:
Introduction; Chapter 1: Welcome O Life! How life got started; Chapter 2: How we got to be so smart and why sex with a caveman was a good idea; Chapter 3: I want you, I want you so bad: the science of finding love; Chapter 4: Sperm meets egg: the science of fertility; Chapter 5: Irish mammies got it right; Chapter 6: I am what I am: the science of gender and sexual orientation; Chapter 7: The God invention; Chapter 8: Here's a good one: why do we laugh?; Chapter 9: I got the music in me: why do we listen to music?
Chapter 10: Sleep and the daily rhythms of life Chapter 11: Our desperate relationship with food; Chapter 12: Superhumans real and imagined; Chapter 13: Are the robots coming to save us or enslave us?; Chapter 14: The biggest and most expensive machines ever built; Chapter 15: Will we stop all diseases?; Chapter 16: Why you shouldn't worry about getting old; Chapter 17: Don't fear the Reaper: death and beyond; Chapter 18: Defying death; Chapter 19: Will we become extinct?; Chapter 20: Things will only get better.
Summary: It started with a bang. Or did it? Opposites attract. Or do they? We're only human. But for how much longer? We'll all die one day. Or will we? This book answers these questions and more. This is the amazing account of our incredible lives - from insignificant atoms to sophisticated space explorers.
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Introduction; Chapter 1: Welcome O Life! How life got started; Chapter 2: How we got to be so smart and why sex with a caveman was a good idea; Chapter 3: I want you, I want you so bad: the science of finding love; Chapter 4: Sperm meets egg: the science of fertility; Chapter 5: Irish mammies got it right; Chapter 6: I am what I am: the science of gender and sexual orientation; Chapter 7: The God invention; Chapter 8: Here's a good one: why do we laugh?; Chapter 9: I got the music in me: why do we listen to music?

Chapter 10: Sleep and the daily rhythms of life Chapter 11: Our desperate relationship with food; Chapter 12: Superhumans real and imagined; Chapter 13: Are the robots coming to save us or enslave us?; Chapter 14: The biggest and most expensive machines ever built; Chapter 15: Will we stop all diseases?; Chapter 16: Why you shouldn't worry about getting old; Chapter 17: Don't fear the Reaper: death and beyond; Chapter 18: Defying death; Chapter 19: Will we become extinct?; Chapter 20: Things will only get better.

It started with a bang. Or did it? Opposites attract. Or do they? We're only human. But for how much longer? We'll all die one day. Or will we? This book answers these questions and more. This is the amazing account of our incredible lives - from insignificant atoms to sophisticated space explorers.

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