"It's crazy but it' brilliant. We, the neotenous, upright, bipedal species - with our narrow pelvis, opposable thumbs, knock-knees, flat levered feet, sloping forehead and non-opposable big toes - we are the super-species that gave birth to the big intelligent embodied bipedal brain: an evolutionary anatomical joke, but an evolutionarily 'poetic' joke! An anatomical frankenfreak! Frankenclown! A wierd evolutionary farce that made us what we are and what we do every Saturday of every week when the dream game is played!" Irvine Welsh

Fully illustrated in colour by satirical artist Matt Kenyon, with a Foreword by Irvine Welsh. "Wow! What an extraordinary production!" - David Spieglehalter, Professor at Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences "Hilarious!" - Editor of Howler Magazine, New York Review of Football Literature "Totally brilliant!" - Robert Sapolsky, Leading Evolutionary Biologists and Author of "Junk Food Monkeys" "Very clever and very funny!" - Tony Collins, International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University "Fantastic! I think I may have trouble not taking this seriously!" - David Kilpatrick, Historian at New York Cosmos and Professor of Language and Literature, Mercy College, New York
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For football fans and geeks, this romp through the "ologies" is a superb spoof in which humans evolved their biologically absurd two-legged stance to play football - domed head and flat face for subtle power heading, and flat levered feet with non-opposable big toes for shooting.
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Welcome to Football Fans and Football Geeks || Football Anatomy and the Coefficient of Reciprocal and Non-Reciprocal Passing Altruism || Gordon P. McNeil's Craniometrics: Football Phrenology || Transliminality and Super-Lucid Football Neoteny Dreams || Football Heroes: Coal Miners of West Auckland and Hearts of Midlothian || The Hunt for the Mession: Football and Yatagarasuism || Moai and the Easter Island Heads of Heading || The Neurology of Football Hymning: The Consciousness of the Football || Shamans, Opposable Thumbs and Goalkeepers || The Football Hormones of Negative Entropy, and Time Dilation || Absurdity and the Theory of Football Relativity || The Anthropology of Gambling || Ancient Football in the Forth Valley: Stonehousemuir || Bipedal Football and its Opposable-Thumb Offshoots: Facilatylcholine || Artificial Intelligence and World Cup 2050: Robo passiens 3 - Homo passiens 2 || Fitba' Petrospheres in Football Festival Square || Football Infanity: Fannabinoid Signalling and the Hot Sauce Paradigm ||
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"Wow! What an extraordinary production!" Professor David Spieglehalter "Hilarious" Editor of Howler Magazine "Totally brilliant!" Robert Sapolsky, author of "Junk Food Monkeys "Very clever and very funny!" Tony Collins, Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University "Fantastic! I think I may have trouble NOT taking this seriously!" Professor David Kilpatrick, historian, Mercy College NY ,
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781909675124
Publisert
2017-07-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Swan & Horn
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
200

Forfatter
Foreword by

Om bidragsyterne

By the author of "The Honey Diet".