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The Story of the Human Body

Evolution, Health, and Disease

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 In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman—chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field—gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning this paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease.

The Story of the Human Body brilliantly illuminates as never before the major transformations that contributed key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the advent of hunting and gathering, leading to our superlative endurance athleticism; the development of a very large brain; and the incipience of cultural proficiencies. Lieberman also elucidates how cultural evolution differs from biological evolution, and how our bodies were further transformed during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.

While these ongoing changes have brought about many benefits, they have also created conditions to which our bodies are not entirely adapted, Lieberman argues, resulting in the growing incidence of obesity and new but avoidable diseases, such as type 2 diabetes. Lieberman proposes that many of these chronic illnesses persist and in some cases are intensifying because of “dysevolution,” a pernicious dynamic whereby only the symptoms rather than the causes of these maladies are treated. And finally—provocatively—he advocates the use of evolutionary information to help nudge, push, and sometimes even compel us to create a more salubrious environment.

(With charts and line drawings throughout.) Mise en forme, régime et nutrition Régimes, nutrition et alimentation équilibrée Science Sciences biologiques Troubles et maladies Nutrition Adaptation Santé Alimentation saine Nourrisson Longévité Exercice physique Physiologie Afrique Evolutionary Biology Human Biology
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great iopener into how the human body works and has evolved. will make you think about your diet in Behavior.

this book was a real eye-opener,

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The scope of this book, its central thesis, and the solutions provided, may spur a foundation of philosophy within our species that will be required to begin undoing modern, mis-matched diseases and their consequential suffering...

Thank you Mr. Lieberman for your deeply human insights.

Awe-inspiring.

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I'm rethinking nearly everything I do in my daily life now... Food, exercise, chairs, shoes, glasses.

Throw away your shoes

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This should be required for every one. To have the facts behind the story of how the human body developed would go along way to prevent mismatched diseases and misinformation.

Excellent

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if you have a body, you will benefit from owning this book. Every nook has things you can learn from our ancestors about how to better care for the bodies we've inherited

For all humans

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