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A review by annw
In Praise of Walking by Shane O'Mara, Shane O'Mara
4.0
I enjoy walking, so this book seemed a good fit for me.
The first 10% of the book is very thorough, going through the importance of walking from a neuroscience perspective, and I did wonder at this point what else he could find to say about walking: whether the rest was just going to be filler content.
I was glad to discover that I was wrong. Moving from the neuroscience in the first 10% he moves into a wide range of other areas: genetics, developmental biology, bipedal adaption, how we learn to walk, how walking works (the complex brain systems involved), the brains mapping system, urban planning, walking in nature and creativity in walking.
This book is well written and easy to read - using sciencific experiments frequently to illustrate his point, and has case studies from all over the world.
An interesting read about something that we all do (and probably should do more of!)
The first 10% of the book is very thorough, going through the importance of walking from a neuroscience perspective, and I did wonder at this point what else he could find to say about walking: whether the rest was just going to be filler content.
I was glad to discover that I was wrong. Moving from the neuroscience in the first 10% he moves into a wide range of other areas: genetics, developmental biology, bipedal adaption, how we learn to walk, how walking works (the complex brain systems involved), the brains mapping system, urban planning, walking in nature and creativity in walking.
This book is well written and easy to read - using sciencific experiments frequently to illustrate his point, and has case studies from all over the world.
An interesting read about something that we all do (and probably should do more of!)