The story of the human body : evolution, health, and disease /
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.
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- What are humans adapted for?
- Upstanding apes: how we became bipeds
- Much depends on dinner: how the Australopiths partly weaned us off fruit
- The first hunter-gatherers: how nearly modern bodies evolved in the human genus
- Energy in the ice age: how we evolved big brains along with large, fat, gradually growing bodies
- A very cultured species: how modern humans colonized the world with a combination of brains plus brawn
- Progress, mismatch, and dysevolution: 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: why too much energy can make us sick
- Disuse: why 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 cultivate a better future for the human body?