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050 0 0 _aQP 38
_b.L54 2013
100 1 _aLieberman, Daniel,
_d1964-
245 1 4 _aThe story of the human body :
_bevolution, health, and disease /
_cDaniel E. Lieberman.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bPantheon Books,
_c[2013]
300 _axii, 460 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aWhat 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?
650 0 _aAdaptation (Biology)
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