The Story of the Human Body

Daniel Lieberman is the Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and a leader in the field. He has wpublished nearly 100 articles, many appearing in the journals Nature and Science. His research and discoveries have been highlighted in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Discover, and National Geographic. He has frequently appeared on Nova, the BBC, and Charlie Rose, among other programs.

出版者:Pantheon

作者:Daniel E. Lieberman

页数:480

出版时间:2013-10-1

价格:USD 27.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780307379412

图书标签:科普进化生命science英文原版Evolution生物学醫學

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A landmark book of popular science—a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fueling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease.

In a book that illuminates, as never before, the evolutionary story of the human body, Daniel Lieberman deftly examines the major transformations that contributed key adaptations to the body: the advent of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the rise of hunting and gathering and our superlative endurance athletic abilities; the development of a very large brain; and the incipience of modern cultural abilities. He elucidates how cultural evolution differs from biological evolution, and how it further transformed our bodies during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. Lieberman illuminates how these ongoing changes have brought many benefits, but also have created novel conditions to which our bodies are not entirely adapted, resulting in a growing incidence of obesity and new but avoidable diseases, including type-2 diabetes. He proposes that many of these chronic illnesses persist and in some cases are intensifying because of "dysevolution," a pernicious dynamic whereby only the symptoms rather than the causes of these maladies are treated. And finally—provocatively—he advocates the use of evolutionary information to help nudge, push, and sometimes oblige us to create a more salubrious environment.

(With charts and line drawings throughout.)

读后感

减肥这件事，喊口号的人永远比付诸实践的多，锲而不舍成效斐然的更是寥寥无几。顶不住美食的诱惑，窝在沙发里不想挪步，也无需自责。哈佛大学生物学教授丹尼尔·利伯曼用进化生物学理论告诉我们，减肥失败简直是必然，成功的才是例外。 《人体的故事：进化、健康与疾病》选题非...  

在看《人体的故事》时，最大的感触是包括人类在内的所有物种的基因组里，都包含了大量沉默的基因片断。这些基因片断在某些人类亚种的特定历史时期，有着正面的意义。或者对当时的人类没有任何影响，但一旦环境发生变化，这些基因立刻会给人带来意料之外的影响。 比如非洲族裔的...  

一、现代人的身体是不断进化的结果 进化发生的一个重要因素是：环境要足够的恶劣。 大容量的大脑在让人类有较大的进化优势的同时，需要有足够的能量来供应其运行。 在原始条件下，环境非常恶劣，人类不得不面临一个很大的问题：那就是很可能会有较长的一段时间找不到吃的。对此...  

当下的“果”是过去的“因”，想要了解当下，必须理解过去。这便是反思的意义。 《人体的故事》也是基于这一逻辑，作者煞费苦心的带领读者以宏大的视角穿越几百万年的人类进化史，就是想要尝试去了解我们是怎么来的，我们的身体在漫长的进化中发生了哪些变化。 围绕着自然选择...  

用户评价

First stop/集大成

基本上是一本很粗略的人类衣食住行进化史，对我最大的意义是解答了为啥现代美国人长那么胖

前三分之一讲physical anthropology其实和核心内容没有太大关系，浪费了不少笔墨。整本书的口吻很像教科书，比如key points明明白白地告诉你“要记就记这个吧”，还有很多时候反复申明一个论点。虽然这么写很清楚，但科普写作应该能做得更好吧？

基本上是一本很粗略的人类衣食住行进化史，对我最大的意义是解答了为啥现代美国人长那么胖

作者认为，农业／工业之后的环境／文化（主要是饮食消费文化）变化快于人类身体由于自然选择变化的速度。我们身体和环境的互动中，产生了很多不适和造成了很多慢性病。这些“不适”是广义的，小到我们穿鞋（鞋太舒适让我们身体没有按其应有的方式成行，于是很多运动／活动伤病）、龋齿等等，大到糖尿病和癌症等病症。我们要做的是改变自己的生活方式：少吃糖，多运动。