Neil Shubin, a Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, has written a book on our convoluted evolutionary history. It's called Your Inner Fish. Very crudely, when you are "designed" to swim in the ocean, then "modified" to thrive in streams, then treetops, then the savannah, and now cubicle farms, there are bound to be any number of glitches. Illness, chronic disease, pain; we owe it all to this history. We are like the used cars of the animal kingdom: lemons, lemons, more lemons.
You can read a great excerpt from the book here. Art above is by Allen Carroll.
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