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001 2013011811
003 DLC
005 20151024081513.0
008 130325s2013 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013011811
020 $a9780307379412
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQP38$b.L74 2013
082 00 $a612$223
100 1 $aLieberman, Daniel,$d1964-
245 14 $aThe story of the human body :$bevolution, health, and disease /$cDaniel E. Lieberman.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c[2013]
300 $axii, 460 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aWhat are humans adapted for? -- Upstanding apes: how we became adapted to being upright -- Much depends on dinner: how walking helped wean us off fruit -- The first hunter-gatherers: how nearly modern bodies evolved in the genus homo -- Energy in the ice age: how we evolved big brains, along with large, fat, slowly growing -- Bodies -- A very cultured species: how modern humans colonized the world with a combination of -- Brains plus brawn -- Progress and mismatch: the consequences-good and bad-of having paleolithic bodies in -- A post-paleolithic world -- Paradise lost? the fruits and follies of becoming farmers -- Modern times, modern bodies: the paradox of human health in the industrial era -- The vicious circle of too much affluence: why and how too much energy makes us -- Sick -- Disuse: how we are losing it by not using it -- The hidden dangers of novelty and comfort: how everyday innovations can damage us -- Survival of the fitter: can evolutionary logic help us better cultivate the human body's -- Future?
650 0 $aHuman body.
650 0 $aHuman evolution.
650 0 $aAdaptation (Biology)