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Why can a person choke while eating? Why can one blocked artery damage the heart that powers the entire body? Why do adult teeth have so little capacity to repair themselves?

The human body is extraordinary, but evolution never designed it from a blank page. It adapted existing structures, preserved workable compromises, and left us with vulnerabilities we now know how to recognize.

In Debugging Evolution, Brian Aum approaches the body as an engineering thought experiment. Across eleven chapters, he examines the airway, heart, spine, foot, brain, sleep, metabolism, cancer, teeth, vision, and immune system. Each chapter identifies a biological vulnerability, looks at what medicine and other species can teach us, and asks what a redesign might require—and what it might cost.

Could separate pathways make choking less likely? Could backup circulation help the heart survive a blockage? Could teeth renew their protective surfaces? These are questions for exploration, not promises of near-term technology.

The deeper question is not whether we can build a “perfect” human. Every apparent improvement brings trade-offs. If we gain the power to alter our biological inheritance, how will we decide what to change, what to preserve, and who gets to choose?

For readers interested in evolution, medicine, bioengineering, and the future of the human body, Debugging Evolution offers a new way to see the anatomy we take for granted.

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