He balances a historical perspective with a contemporary one. He comprehensively explains how evolutionary forces have shaped the human species as we know it. leads a fascinating journey through human evolution. “In thoroughly enjoyable and edifying prose, Lieberman. The Story of the Human Body is a reliable guide to a problem that is going to get worse before it gets better.” - The Guardian “ evolutionary approach produces some counterintuitive surprises. Lieberman takes on many popular notions, including barefoot running, the paleo diet, epigenetics, and a host of hot topics ranging from obesity and chronic disease to Nanny State politics.” - Outside But how we best cope with this new reality often is. That humans are poorly adapted to our modern lifestyle of convenience foods, flat screens, and desk jobs isn’t very controversial. Still, a look back at where we came from can tell us a lot about where we’re headed, he says-and how we might alter that course for the better.” - Grist Lieberman is the first to point out that modern living and technology have made our lives better in many ways. Ronald Hoffman, The Hoffman Center/ Health Talk A great read, and I recommend it highly for those of you who are interested in learning the facts about our biological roots, and how we can rationally apply ‘Paleo’ concepts to prevent and reverse modern ‘mismatch’ diseases.” -Dr. “The ultimate science-based Paleo investigation. He ably describes how behavior and anatomy can lead to foot injuries in long-distance runners.” - The Wall Street Journal “ is a true expert in a system where architecture and history intersect: the human foot.
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The Story of the Human Body does full justice to those stories, to that evidence and to that detail, and brings them to bear on daily health and well-being, individual and collective.” - The Washington Post “These are not debates to gloss over or reduce to simple statements of cause and effect-they are stories with scientific complexity and tremendous, sometimes contradictory accumulations of evidence and detail. No one understands the human body like Daniel Lieberman or tells its story more eloquently.” -Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run “Riveting, enlightening, and more than a little frightening. Convincingly makes the case for a wholesale rethinking of how we live our modern lives.’” - CommonHealth, WBUR
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A readable introduction to the whole field and great on the making of our physicality.” - Nature 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 an epic voyage that reveals how the past six million years shaped every part of us-our heads, limbs, and even our metabolism.
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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 and pursue better lifestyles. He shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning a paradox: greater longevity, but increased chronic disease. He illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism the shift to a non-fruit-based diet the advent of hunting and gathering and how cultural changes like the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions have impacted us physically. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E.