A work of remarkable scope' - GuardianFT Best science books of 2018Primate Change has been
adapted into a radio series for the BBC WORLD SERVICE.*This is the road from climate change to
primate change.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging polemical look at how and why the human body
has changed since humankind first got up on two feet. Spanning the entirety of human history -
from primate to transhuman - Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book investigates where we came from who we
are today and how modern technology will change us beyond recognition.In the last two hundred
years humans have made such a tremendous impact on the world that our geological epoch is
about to be declared the 'Anthropocene' or the Age of Man. But while we have been busy
changing the shape of the world we inhabit the ways of living that we have been building have
as if under the cover of darkness been transforming our bodies and altering the expression of
our DNA too.Primate Change beautifully unscrambles the complex architecture of our modern
human bodies built over millions of years and only starting to give up on us now.'Our bodies
are in a shock. Modern living is as bracing to the human body as jumping through a hole in the
ice. Our bodies do not know what century they were born into and they are defending and
deforming themselves in response.
