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Superhuman is challenging and thought-provoking throughout, but also enjoyably critical and controversial in places. For example, what would your reaction be if paramedics refused you blankets and intravenous fluids after a serious accident? In the context of current standard medical practice, such behavior would constitute dereliction of duty, but given the known dangers of artificially inflating a trauma victim's blood-pressure and the demonstrated benefits of a low body temperature in certain circumstances, cautious neglect may sometimes be the best treatment. In fact, there are doctors in the UK who say they would sue if a paramedic even attempted to give them fluids after an accident. Still happy to put your life in their hands?
Superhuman is so interesting and such a delight to read that one hesitates to criticize, but the good professor should stick to the species he knows. For example: "The further down the evolutionary hierarchy we go, towards the reptiles, amphibians, and worms, the more widespread ... regenerative talent appears to be." So much hard public-relations work by evolutionary scientists so easily undone. Read Winston for fascinating insights into Homo sapiens, but read Stephen Jay Gould's Full House for a rather more balanced assessment of the other 30 million species on Earth. --Chris Lavers, Amazon.co.uk
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