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So studying biopsychology lead me to this book, it’s hard to review readings I’m so new to, or to gauge its impact, but all I can say is that I learned a lot (which may or may not be common/basic knowledge in the field).
Of particular interest is the idea that human posture is what advanced our survival. For example, chimps swing around when they walk hence waste too much energy. The first boon of walking upright was efficiency. The energy a chimp burns while covering 3km meters contrasts to a human’s 12km
We evolved from archaic humans and somewhere along the lines we developed chins and a vocal tract (and very few people know why)
The refined vocal cord led to language, social networks, and culture, which led to us today — that got me as a cultural theorist all giddy and had me drawing psychoanalytical connections to the power of the voice as the lever of thought and the voice as a bridge between nature and cultural (see mladen dolar’s a voice and nothing more)
we moderns can trace our ancestry back to a population of Homo sapiens made up of just 14,000 individuals and basically we cultivated cultural habits and cultural behaviour, weapons and animal cruelty and trapped ourselves into a labour intensive agricultural life
The most interesting aspect of this book is the negative impacts of the agricultural and industrial revolutions on human health. It leads to mismatch diseases, which are the result of us living lives not in accordance to the way we evolved. This includes cavities, allergies, anxieties to diabetes , apparently the list is long
He cites indigenous Australians as having smaller jaws today than their elders/ancestors because western diets life has basically led us to underuse our bodies
Lieberman also tells you to jog without your shoes to strengthen your feet’s nerves and reconnect with the way we are made.
I tried that in my backyard and almost got disowned by my Arab/African family when I tried to walk back in
Of particular interest is the idea that human posture is what advanced our survival. For example, chimps swing around when they walk hence waste too much energy. The first boon of walking upright was efficiency. The energy a chimp burns while covering 3km meters contrasts to a human’s 12km
We evolved from archaic humans and somewhere along the lines we developed chins and a vocal tract (and very few people know why)
The refined vocal cord led to language, social networks, and culture, which led to us today — that got me as a cultural theorist all giddy and had me drawing psychoanalytical connections to the power of the voice as the lever of thought and the voice as a bridge between nature and cultural (see mladen dolar’s a voice and nothing more)
we moderns can trace our ancestry back to a population of Homo sapiens made up of just 14,000 individuals and basically we cultivated cultural habits and cultural behaviour, weapons and animal cruelty and trapped ourselves into a labour intensive agricultural life
The most interesting aspect of this book is the negative impacts of the agricultural and industrial revolutions on human health. It leads to mismatch diseases, which are the result of us living lives not in accordance to the way we evolved. This includes cavities, allergies, anxieties to diabetes , apparently the list is long
He cites indigenous Australians as having smaller jaws today than their elders/ancestors because western diets life has basically led us to underuse our bodies
Lieberman also tells you to jog without your shoes to strengthen your feet’s nerves and reconnect with the way we are made.
I tried that in my backyard and almost got disowned by my Arab/African family when I tried to walk back in
Hearing Lieberman speak on issues related to this topic a few years ago is what helped me to try--and after years of hating, discover love for--running. Apparently, an evolutionary explanation is a great motivation for me. Although this were bits of repetition in the manner of a series of college lectures, the story was engagingly told with good humor and explained well for the non-scientist. The later section on the mismatch hypothesis concerning so many diseases and conditions was super enlightening. He goes beyond the obvious type 2 diabetes to explain possible reasons for why so many of us are nearsighted and have impacted wisdom teeth removed. I like his proposals about various nudge solutions that could be employed to help people make smarter choices as well as the more out there (not crazy, just seeming unlikely to be implemented) ideas like children reading more text projected on walls instead of any kind of books and chewing lots of sugar free gum to develop their jaws.
I'm hopeful that as with running, evolutionary reasons to eat better (i.e. less sugar) will help motivate me to do so. Not to mention getting back out to run more!
I'm hopeful that as with running, evolutionary reasons to eat better (i.e. less sugar) will help motivate me to do so. Not to mention getting back out to run more!
I'm a little upset because I lost my first review of this book when I changed editions. My fault, though.
I received this book from my friend Simona when she was getting rid of some of her old things. She told me she couldn't really get into it, but after I told her I really enjoyed it, she decided to give it another try.
I really enjoyed this book, and it has made lasting changes to my diet and exercise routine. Unfortunately for Lieberman, it doesn't seem like the new terms he proposes in this book are really catching on like the word "meme" did for Dawkins. But then, "dysevolution" and "mismatch diseases" don't have quite the same ring.
Though I say this book has made lasting changes to my lifestyle, I would not really consider this a self-help book. Lieberman does not structure this book as a manual to combat dysevolution. Instead, he lays out the natural history of human evolution and how current environmental pressures are drastically different even from the not-so-distant past. But it is easy to pull relevant suggestions to leading a healthier life.
I received this book from my friend Simona when she was getting rid of some of her old things. She told me she couldn't really get into it, but after I told her I really enjoyed it, she decided to give it another try.
I really enjoyed this book, and it has made lasting changes to my diet and exercise routine. Unfortunately for Lieberman, it doesn't seem like the new terms he proposes in this book are really catching on like the word "meme" did for Dawkins. But then, "dysevolution" and "mismatch diseases" don't have quite the same ring.
Though I say this book has made lasting changes to my lifestyle, I would not really consider this a self-help book. Lieberman does not structure this book as a manual to combat dysevolution. Instead, he lays out the natural history of human evolution and how current environmental pressures are drastically different even from the not-so-distant past. But it is easy to pull relevant suggestions to leading a healthier life.
Popular evolutionary biology, stressing the mismatches that cause us trouble, like cavities and diabetes, as human beings and their environment interact with one another.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Very informative. Too much repetition that it was hard to keep reading.
As the title implies, “The Story...”, serves as a light introduction to the subject of the evolutionary body we humans possess. The writing is highly accessible, able to produce an informed idea of the past, present and possible futures for our bodies and us. As with other academic books for non-academics, treating vast subjects in introductory manner, it can fall short for people with great interest in the topic that have already read other books. In this case, I’m not a specialist in the domain, but having read previously various books from Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker or Denis Dutton made me feel like reading nothing new.
Anyhow, Daniel Lieberman is a well know professor at Harvard, with a strong research record on evolution and the human body, which per se makes this book a must read. Even if not reading complete new arguments, we’re reading them from the source, which is not only more authentic but ensuring. As we know, evolutionary biology has always been seen with a cast of doubt, mainly because it’s very difficult to empirically demonstrate the facts, however Lieberman does a really great job in supporting with theoretical evidence all the current theories.
The most relevant for me in the book was its second part, which Lieberman dedicates to the discussion of human body diseases, presenting them mainly as problems of "mismatch” between the body evolution and the cultural production of life conditions, as food, automation, clothes, etc. Not being surprising, is great food for thought, mainly about our daily lives and the happiness values we seem to use as goals and creed.
Anyhow, Daniel Lieberman is a well know professor at Harvard, with a strong research record on evolution and the human body, which per se makes this book a must read. Even if not reading complete new arguments, we’re reading them from the source, which is not only more authentic but ensuring. As we know, evolutionary biology has always been seen with a cast of doubt, mainly because it’s very difficult to empirically demonstrate the facts, however Lieberman does a really great job in supporting with theoretical evidence all the current theories.
The most relevant for me in the book was its second part, which Lieberman dedicates to the discussion of human body diseases, presenting them mainly as problems of "mismatch” between the body evolution and the cultural production of life conditions, as food, automation, clothes, etc. Not being surprising, is great food for thought, mainly about our daily lives and the happiness values we seem to use as goals and creed.
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