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Daniel E. Lieberman, chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a leading figure in the field, describes clearly and engagingly in this groundbreaking book the evolution the human body has undergone over millions of years. In doing so, he explains how the growing mismatch between the mixture of our bodies' Stone Age adaptations and the progress of the modern world leads to a paradox – the simultaneous increase in longevity and chronic illness.
The Story of the Human Body brilliantly illuminates the transformations that contributed to key bodily adaptations: the adoption of bipedalism; the transition to a non-fruit diet; obtaining food through hunting and gathering, which gave us such extraordinary capacity for endurance disciplines; the development of a very large brain; the rise of cultural skills. Lieberman further clarifies how cultural evolution differs from biological evolution and what further transformation our bodies underwent during the agricultural and industrial revolutions.
Lieberman believes that many chronic diseases persist and in some cases even intensify as a result of "dysevolution," a pernicious dynamic in which only the symptoms of these diseases are treated, not their causes. He proposes that we allow insights about evolution to nudge, push and perhaps even compel us to create a healthier environment.
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