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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
I’ve encountered most of the information in this book in other books over the years, but this author does an excellent job of explaining complicated science concepts in ways that a layperson can understand and relating it to how we live our lives. Lots of food for thought.
A good primer on evolutionary adaptations in humans. It should be required reading for all Homo sapiens and any other biota capable of comprehending the content.
Takže běhat, běhat, běhat a omezit junk food, je to nejlepší, co můžete pro zdraví udělat. Sice nic nového pod sluncem, ale kniha Daniela Liebermana, nám tuhle starou pravdu připomíná vskutku evolučním způsobem.
Doporučing pro všechny evoluční biology, lékaře a hominidy
Doporučing pro všechny evoluční biology, lékaře a hominidy
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This book is sort of like two different books in one. The first section is an overview of human evolution. This section was interesting as this topic always is, but it is better than many treatments because it is written by an expert in the field rather than a journalist trying to sell a book.
The second part of the book is the actual point of the book. It talks about "mismatch" diseases defined as maladies that result from doing things for which the human body is not adapted. This section was noteworthy for its balanced treatment of subjects such as obesity and cancer which are often characterized by quackery with people claiming evolutionary bases for their pet opinion. While I am not an independent expert, the conclusions advanced, the caveats issued, and the nuances acknowledged in this book give me the impression that the information here can be believed. This is not pop-science using tiny samples to generate sensationalized headlines for publicity. This is a thoughtful attempt to think about what relationships are broadly supported and what lessons/conclusions we can draw from them.
The second part of this book in particular was perhaps a bit lengthy and repetitive. The author spells out every conclusion in almost excruciating detail--excruciating especially because many of the points are almost identical in most of the case studies examined. I think the author could give the reader a little more credit and take bigger steps along the way from his data to his conclusions and needn't have reiterated the same conclusion repeatedly in such depth.
The second part of the book is the actual point of the book. It talks about "mismatch" diseases defined as maladies that result from doing things for which the human body is not adapted. This section was noteworthy for its balanced treatment of subjects such as obesity and cancer which are often characterized by quackery with people claiming evolutionary bases for their pet opinion. While I am not an independent expert, the conclusions advanced, the caveats issued, and the nuances acknowledged in this book give me the impression that the information here can be believed. This is not pop-science using tiny samples to generate sensationalized headlines for publicity. This is a thoughtful attempt to think about what relationships are broadly supported and what lessons/conclusions we can draw from them.
The second part of this book in particular was perhaps a bit lengthy and repetitive. The author spells out every conclusion in almost excruciating detail--excruciating especially because many of the points are almost identical in most of the case studies examined. I think the author could give the reader a little more credit and take bigger steps along the way from his data to his conclusions and needn't have reiterated the same conclusion repeatedly in such depth.
A sweeping synthesis of current anthropology, biology, psychology, and medicine. This book is fascinating and informative about everything from your head to your toes. Greatly enjoyed it.
Fantastic. A journey through the process of how our bodies got their current state of human-ness.
Written by an evolutionary biologist, Lieberman uses a lens of science, history, culture and evolution to understand the state of health and disease. He tackles subjects such as influence of hunter gatherer lifestyle on physical evolution of the body (they had no cavities, were taller than farmers, and walked miles to acquire smaller numbers of calories), energy/caloric requirements went up as our brains got bigger, our bodies made to store fat readily to have energy available when food is scarce (doesn't help us now that food is NOT scarce), "diet and physical activity are far more potent predictors of obesity and illness" than genes, stress/cortisol response was a necessary strategy to keep people safe in cave man times, but now that same stress/cortisol causes a host of diseases...I could go on. Loved this book. Very readable, can be digested easily as it reads like a story but backed up by science. Available at the library :)