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.
发表于2024-11-24
The Story of the Human Body 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
在每天上下班路上看完了这本书,很有意思的科普书,从进化史的角度分析了某些疾病大量爆发的原因,就此提出失配性疾病的概念,简而言之,我们的身体是进化的产物,而进化的目的是为了促进生殖繁衍,因此当科技发展、社会进步的力量过大过快,身体的基因却依然停留在适应过去,...
评分气候变化,林地变稀疏,从采摘果子的猿类,到直立行走采果子的乍得沙赫人;林地进一步稀疏,到直立行走挖掘根茎的南方古猿;再到根茎已无法果腹,压力下开始增加肉食的能人、直立人;再到因肉食而能量摄入大增,启动正反馈,更大的大脑、更强的使用工具和合作能力,获得更多的...
评分作者类似观点在其他书中看到过,但本书更系统全面、娓娓道来,还有实验支撑,也比较谨慎。 1.实践:作者是著名的赤足跑教授,本书也提到鞋子是足部疾病的元凶,远古人类是长时间赤足跑的高手,会更好调节跑步姿势,也能更好感受地面;作者知行合一,对于暂时无法验证的理论,至...
评分当下的“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...
图书标签: 科普 进化 生命 science 英文原版 Evolution 生物学 醫學
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.)
道理不错,但感觉太重复,可以精炼到1/3
评分四星半吧 现代生活习惯指南 有些地方略啰嗦
评分作者认为,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。
评分道理不错,但感觉太重复,可以精炼到1/3
评分放松大脑读科学。这本挺好的,简单好懂。少吃糖多运动(不穿鞋的教授)。
The Story of the Human Body 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书