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Alex Bezzerides on Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
Episode • Jun 4, 2021 • 54m
(6/4/21) From blurry vision to crooked teeth, ACLs that tear at alarming rates and spines that seem to spend a lifetime falling apart, it’s a curious thing that human beings have beaten the odds as a species. Professor of biology at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho Dr. Alex Bezzerides’s new book Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't) is a look at the many twists and turns of our ancestral past. Join us for a look at why the body behaves like it does in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.

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