Humanology: A Scientist's Guide to Our Amazing Existence

Cover
Title Page
Dedication
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
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
Copyright
About the Author
About Gill Books