Author: Michael Denton
Appreciating the Design of Human Muscles
It is likely that no further improvement in muscle power can be achieved by increasing the density of packing of the myosin motors.
For Fire and More, Humans Are Designed to Have Just the Right Strength
How is it that an ant appears proportionately so much stronger than a trained human weight lifter?
Remarkably, Humans Are Just the Right Size to Make and Master Fire
Only an organism of our dimensions and android design — 1.5 to 2 meters in height with arms about 1 meter-long ending in manipulative tools — can handle fire.
How Man Became the Fire-Maker
Being terrestrial is one obvious requirement. No fully aquatic species could master fire and thus develop metallurgy.
Nature’s Magic and Its Breathtaking Parsimony
Without this ensemble of fitness in nature, there would be no wood, no fire, no metallurgy, no modern technology.