“we were designed not by Pygmalion, the mythical sculptor who carved a flawless woman, but by MacGyver”
“Evolution constructed our bodies with the biological equivalent of duct tape and lumber scraps.”
“And the only way to refine the form (short of an asteroid strike or nuclear detonation to wipe clean the slate) is to jerry-rig the current model. “Evolution doesn’t produce perfection,” explains Alan Mann, a physical anthropologist at Princeton University. “It produces function.””