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All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days. This book title, The Story of the Human Body (Evolution, Health, and Disease), ISBN: 9780307741806, by Daniel Lieberman, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (July 1, 2014) is available in paperback.
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. Story of the Human Body asks how our bodies got to be the way they are, and considers how that evolutionary history - both ancient and recent - can help us. 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. Liebermanchair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the fieldgives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements. 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. Samenvatting: In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. In this book the author, a Harvard evolutionary biologist presents an account of how the human body has evolved over millions of years, examining how an increasing disparity between the needs of Stone Age bodies and the realities of the modern. (With charts and line drawings throughout.In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Vintage Books, 2014 - Science - 460 pages. 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. Lieberman proposes that many of these chronic illnesses persist and in some cases are intensifying because of “dysevolution,” a pernicious dynamic whereby only the symptoms rather than the causes of these maladies are treated. While these ongoing changes have brought about many benefits, they have also created conditions to which our bodies are not entirely adapted, Lieberman argues, resulting in the growing incidence of obesity and new but avoidable diseases, such as type 2 diabetes. Acheter The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease de Daniel Lieberman, en tat Trs bon tat.
Lieberman also elucidates how cultural evolution differs from biological evolution, and how our bodies were further transformed during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease Find, read and.
The Story of the Human Body brilliantly illuminates as never before the major transformations that contributed key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism the shift to a non-fruit-based diet the advent of hunting and gathering, leading to our superlative endurance athleticism the development of a very large brain and the incipience of cultural proficiencies. PDF On Jan 1, 2014, Robert O Deaner and others published A big batch of mismatch: A review of Daniel E. Lieberman-chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field-gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning this paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease.
In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E.