Marsha Woerner reviewed Human Errors by L.J. Ganser
Review of 'Human Errors' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
The title presents the question, "mental or physical (i.e. evolutionary)." The answer is obvious from the very beginning, it's evolutionary. Evolution has provided people with amazing advantages as well as horrible and frustrating DISadvantages! And the question becomes, is the trade-off worth it? Clearly, in most ways it really is, but the next time that someone tries to convince you that humans were made perfectly, don't even start to buy it! Even amongst the mammals, we have significant disadvantages: no other primates have the difficulty overall with child delivery as humans. Furthermore, although other mammals to get allergies, they don't even begin to compare with the severity and quantity of those of humans. And don't even talk about autoimmune disease! Other mammals don't go into menopause; other mammals are born more developed than we; other mammals don't get upper respiratory infections at the same rate as we, nor do they …
The title presents the question, "mental or physical (i.e. evolutionary)." The answer is obvious from the very beginning, it's evolutionary. Evolution has provided people with amazing advantages as well as horrible and frustrating DISadvantages! And the question becomes, is the trade-off worth it? Clearly, in most ways it really is, but the next time that someone tries to convince you that humans were made perfectly, don't even start to buy it! Even amongst the mammals, we have significant disadvantages: no other primates have the difficulty overall with child delivery as humans. Furthermore, although other mammals to get allergies, they don't even begin to compare with the severity and quantity of those of humans. And don't even talk about autoimmune disease! Other mammals don't go into menopause; other mammals are born more developed than we; other mammals don't get upper respiratory infections at the same rate as we, nor do they get "stomach flu" or diarrhea as much as we! He goes through a whole range of physical errors that are borne by humans.
He also goes into how some of them are our own fault.
He does go into SOME mental things, but that is definitely not the overall gist. It's a good book, and it points out both the physical errors it in our creation as well as the psychological errors that we tend to make.
