The Story of the Human Physique: Evolution, Well being, and Illness

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On this landmark ebook of widespread science, Daniel E. Lieberman—chair of the division of human evolutionary biology at Harvard College and a frontrunner within the discipline—provides us a lucid and interesting account of how the human physique advanced over thousands and thousands of years, even because it reveals how the growing disparity between the jumble of variations in our Stone Age our bodies and developments within the fashionable world is occasioning this paradox: better longevity however elevated persistent illness.
 
The Story of the Human Physique brilliantly illuminates as by no means earlier than the main transformations that contributed key variations to the physique: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based weight-reduction plan; the appearance of looking and gathering, resulting in our superlative endurance athleticism; the event of a really massive mind; and the incipience of cultural proficiencies. Lieberman additionally elucidates how cultural evolution differs from organic evolution, and the way our our bodies have been additional reworked through the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.
 
Whereas these ongoing modifications have led to many advantages, they’ve additionally created situations to which our our bodies should not fully tailored, Lieberman argues, ensuing within the rising incidence of weight problems and new however avoidable illnesses, reminiscent of kind 2 diabetes. Lieberman proposes that many of those persistent diseases persist and in some circumstances are intensifying due to “dysevolution,” a pernicious dynamic whereby solely the signs moderately than the causes of those maladies are handled. And eventually—provocatively—he advocates using evolutionary data to assist nudge, push, and generally even compel us to create a extra salubrious surroundings.

(With charts and line drawings all through.)

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00C8S9VCK
Writer ‏ : ‎ Classic; 1st version (October 1, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 1, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File dimension ‏ : ‎ 4862 KB
Textual content-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Display Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Phrase Clever ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print size ‏ : ‎ 481 pages

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Prospects discover the ebook well-written, thorough, and convincing. In addition they discover the content material fascinating, enlightening, and informative. Readers respect the well-cited breakdown of key developments within the evolution of hominids to Homo sapiens.

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The Story of the Human Physique: Evolution, Well being, and Illness
The Story of the Human Physique: Evolution, Well being, and Illness

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