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The story of the human body : evolution, health, and disease
- Author
- Lieberman, Daniel E., 1964-
- Title
- The story of the human body : evolution, health, and disease / Daniel E. Lieberman.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- First edition.
- Published
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2013]
- Description
- xii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- What are humans adapted for?
- Upstanding apes: how we became adapted to being upright
- Much depends on dinner: how walking helped wean us off fruit
- The first hunter-gatherers: how nearly modern bodies evolved in the genus homo
- Energy in the ice age: how we evolved big brains, along with large, fat, slowly growing
- Bodies
- A very cultured species: how modern humans colonized the world with a combination of
- Brains plus brawn
- Progress and mismatch: the consequences-good and bad-of having paleolithic bodies in
- A post-paleolithic world
- Paradise lost? the fruits and follies of becoming farmers
- Modern times, modern bodies: the paradox of human health in the industrial era
- The vicious circle of too much affluence: why and how too much energy makes us
- Sick
- Disuse: how we are losing it by not using it
- The hidden dangers of novelty and comfort: how everyday innovations can damage us
- Survival of the fitter: can evolutionary logic help us better cultivate the human body's
- Future?
- Summary
- A Harvard evolutionary biologist presents an engaging discussion of how the human body has evolved over millions of years, examining how an increasing disparity between the needs of Stone Age bodies and the realities of the modern world are fueling a paradox of greater longevity and chronic disease.
- Subject headings
- Human body. Human evolution. Adaptation (Biology)
- ISBN
- 9780307379412 0307379418