The story of the human body : evolution, health and disease / Daniel Lieberman.

  • Lieberman, Daniel E., 1964-
Date:
2013
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

London : Allen Lane, 2013.

Physical description

xii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

What are humans adapted for? -- Upstanding apes: how we became adapted to being upright -- Much depends on dinner: how walking helped wean us off fruit -- The first hunter-gatherers: how nearly modern bodies evolved in the genus homo -- Energy in the ice age: how we evolved big brains, along with large, fat, slowly growing -- Bodies -- A very cultured species: how modern humans colonized the world with a combination of -- Brains plus brawn -- Progress and mismatch: 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 affluence: why and how too much energy makes us -- Sick -- Disuse: how 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 us better cultivate the human body's -- Future?.

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    History of Medicine
    DA /LIE
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ISBN

  • 9781846143922
  • 1846143926