Daniel Lieberman – The Story of the Human Body
English | Size: 618.99 MB
Category: Psychology / Body Language
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.
What the Critics Say
“No one understands the human body like Daniel Lieberman or tells its story more eloquently. He’s found a tale inside our skin that’s riveting, enlightening, and more than a little frightening.” (Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run)
“Monumental: The Story of the Human Body, by one of our leading experts, takes us on an epic voyage that reveals how the past six million years shaped every part of us – our heads, limbs, and even our metabolism. Through Lieberman’s eyes, evolutionary history not only comes alive, it becomes the means to understand, and ultimately influence, our body’s future.” (Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish)
“A lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved and the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world.” (Publishers Weekly)
Table of Contents
Preface
1 | Introduction
What Are Humans Adapted For?
PART I Apes and Humans
2 | Upstanding Apes
How We Became Bipeds
3 | Much Depends on Dinner
How the Australopiths Partly Weaned Us Off Fruit
4 | The First Hunter-Gatherers
How Nearly Modern Bodies Evolved in the Human Genus
5 | Energy in the Ice Age
How We Evolved Big Brains Along with Large, Fat, Gradually Growing Bodies
6 | A Very Cultured Species
How Modern Humans Colonized the World with a Combination of Brains plus Brawn
PART II Farming and the Industrial Revolution
7 | Progress, Mismatch, and Dysevolution
The Consequences—Good and Bad—of Having Paleolithic Bodies in a Post-Paleolithic World
8 | Paradise Lost?
The Fruits and Follies of Becoming Farmers
9 | Modern Times, Modern Bodies
The Paradox of Human Health in the Industrial Era
PART III The Present, the Future
10 | The Vicious Circle of Too Much
Why Too Much Energy Can Make Us Sick
11 | Disuse
Why We Are Losing It by Not Using It
12 | The Hidden Dangers of Novelty and Comfort
Why Everyday Innovations Can Damage Us
13 | Survival of the Fitter
Can Evolutionary Logic Help Cultivate a Better Future
for the Human Body?
Last Words | Marching backwards into future
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