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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.
- 科普
- 进化
- 生命
- science
- 英文原版
- Evolution
- 生物学
- 醫學
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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我们常说“身体是革命的本钱”，在现代生活中，对健康的关注也越来越高，从火爆的养生节目就可以见得。当今最常见的一些健康问题困扰着大量的人，如糖尿病、肥胖、心脑血管疾病、癌症等等。生活在现如今这个到处都是诱惑你吃掉各种东西的时代，这些疾病会让每一个年轻时候的“...
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...
评分在每天上下班路上看完了这本书，很有意思的科普书，从进化史的角度分析了某些疾病大量爆发的原因，就此提出失配性疾病的概念，简而言之，我们的身体是进化的产物，而进化的目的是为了促进生殖繁衍，因此当科技发展、社会进步的力量过大过快，身体的基因却依然停留在适应过去，...
评分文|轻禅 近些年，人类患罕见病的概率似乎上升了，尤其是一些很难治愈的疾病，譬如2型糖尿病、心脏病、癌症等。不知从何时起，这些疾病成为如今人类的困扰。据报道称，到2045年，人群中患有癌症的比例可达到1/3，这可怕的数字，实在是让人心惊胆颤。面对病魔，人类首先想到...
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四星半吧 现代生活习惯指南 有些地方略啰嗦
评分一本关于人类进化的好书，但许多养生理论知易行难，明知道太咸太甜太懒太舒服对人体都不好，但是要吃得清淡又动的勤快实在太麻烦了。
评分放松大脑读科学。这本挺好的，简单好懂。少吃糖多运动（不穿鞋的教授）。
评分前三分之一讲physical anthropology其实和核心内容没有太大关系，浪费了不少笔墨。整本书的口吻很像教科书，比如key points明明白白地告诉你“要记就记这个吧”，还有很多时候反复申明一个论点。虽然这么写很清楚，但科普写作应该能做得更好吧？
评分A more detailed explanation about the technics of the human body!
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