Daniel Lieberman is the Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and a leader in the field. He has wpublished nearly 100 articles, many appearing in the journals Nature and Science. His research and discoveries have been highlighted in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Discover, and National Geographic. He has frequently appeared on Nova, the BBC, and Charlie Rose, among other programs.
A landmark book of popular science—a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fueling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease.
In a book that illuminates, as never before, the evolutionary story of the human body, Daniel Lieberman deftly examines the major transformations that contributed key adaptations to the body: the advent of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the rise of hunting and gathering and our superlative endurance athletic abilities; the development of a very large brain; and the incipience of modern cultural abilities. He elucidates how cultural evolution differs from biological evolution, and how it further transformed our bodies during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. Lieberman illuminates how these ongoing changes have brought many benefits, but also have created novel conditions to which our bodies are not entirely adapted, resulting in a growing incidence of obesity and new but avoidable diseases, including type-2 diabetes. He 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. And finally—provocatively—he advocates the use of evolutionary information to help nudge, push, and sometimes oblige us to create a more salubrious environment.
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当下的“果”是过去的“因”,想要了解当下,必须理解过去。这便是反思的意义。 《人体的故事》也是基于这一逻辑,作者煞费苦心的带领读者以宏大的视角穿越几百万年的人类进化史,就是想要尝试去了解我们是怎么来的,我们的身体在漫长的进化中发生了哪些变化。 围绕着自然选择...
评分作者类似观点在其他书中看到过,但本书更系统全面、娓娓道来,还有实验支撑,也比较谨慎。 1.实践:作者是著名的赤足跑教授,本书也提到鞋子是足部疾病的元凶,远古人类是长时间赤足跑的高手,会更好调节跑步姿势,也能更好感受地面;作者知行合一,对于暂时无法验证的理论,至...
评分1、本书是科普读物,至少在我看来是的,从进化论,到21世纪的现代人,作者的讲解非常引人入胜并且在现代人的很多问题上很引发人的思考,也让我们更多的去认识我们自己以及我们从何而来 2、读完这本书,会忍不住想对我们的大学和高中教育说,希望他们可以多一些这种科普并且已经...
评分 评分一、现代人的身体是不断进化的结果 进化发生的一个重要因素是:环境要足够的恶劣。 大容量的大脑在让人类有较大的进化优势的同时,需要有足够的能量来供应其运行。 在原始条件下,环境非常恶劣,人类不得不面临一个很大的问题:那就是很可能会有较长的一段时间找不到吃的。对此...
“人类太罪过了”,伊吐出一口香烟,慢慢讲道。
评分收获比较大的书,丰富了以前太过简化的人类进化地图。而且,从此喜欢上赤脚站立和跑步了。。。 我们不能在想怎样就怎样了,整个商业社会,就在利用我们进化生理上的弱点,损害我们的健康。 难得的是,观点毫不偏激。
评分作者认为,农业/工业之后的环境/文化(主要是饮食消费文化)变化快于人类身体由于自然选择变化的速度。我们身体和环境的互动中,产生了很多不适和造成了很多慢性病。这些“不适”是广义的,小到我们穿鞋(鞋太舒适让我们身体没有按其应有的方式成行,于是很多运动/活动伤病)、龋齿等等,大到糖尿病和癌症等病症。我们要做的是改变自己的生活方式:少吃糖,多运动。
评分四星半吧 现代生活习惯指南 有些地方略啰嗦
评分这本书最大的好处是读的时候,像是听教授在教室里讲课一样,她把讲课的内容写成了一本书,而且科普性极高!
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