Id 58ed407c-28a1-4dc7-b872-b92af0a0a793 starRating 4.In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodies sortTitle Story of the Human Body Evolution Health and Disease crossRefId 1275757 subtitle Evolution, Health, and Disease popularity 1367 publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group links
Lieberman also elucidates how cultural evolution differs from biological evolution, and how our bodies were. 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-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. isOwnedB圜ollections True title The Story of the Human Body fullDescription In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. He elucidates the difference between biological and cultural evolution, the latter of which, though largely beneficial, has created conditions to which our bodies are not entirely adapted (resulting in a growing incidence of new but. In a book that illuminates, as never before, the evolutionary story of the human body, Daniel Lieberman deftly examines the five major transformations which contributed key adaptations to the body: the advent of bipedalism the shift to a non-fruit based diet the rise of hunting and gathering and of the species as comprised of superlative endurance athletes the development of a very large brain and the incipience of modern cultural abilities. PublishDate T05:00:00+01:00 publishDateText mediaType eBook shortDescriptionĪ landmark book of popular science-a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how increasingly the disparity between the evolutionary design of our "hunter-gatherer" bodies and the world in which we live has occasioned a crisis of "dysevolution." His research and discoveries have been highlighted widely in newspapers, magazines, books, news programs, and documentaries. He is especially well known for his research on the evolution of the human head, and on the evolution of running, including barefoot running (earning him the nickname the Barefoot Professor). He has written more than one hundred articles, many appearing in the journals Nature and Science.
Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, at Harvard.
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