tanja_alina_berg 's review for:

Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman

4.0

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This is a book of how the human body became ... well... human, as opposed to ape-like. Thus it doesn't dwell too much on organs, except for the brain. It's more about how we developed arched feet, long legs, big butts (in comparison to say, chimpanzees), why we are predisposed to be fat and such things. When the author is done with this, he moves on to "mismatch" diseases, the result of our bodies not fitting to its current environment. Typical mismatch diseases are flat feet, being short-sighted and diabetes 2. Fun, interesting and easy to read.