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.
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.)
發表於2024-05-20
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當下的“果”是過去的“因”,想要瞭解當下,必須理解過去。這便是反思的意義。 《人體的故事》也是基於這一邏輯,作者煞費苦心的帶領讀者以宏大的視角穿越幾百萬年的人類進化史,就是想要嘗試去瞭解我們是怎麼來的,我們的身體在漫長的進化中發生瞭哪些變化。 圍繞著自然選擇...
評分我們常說“身體是革命的本錢”,在現代生活中,對健康的關注也越來越高,從火爆的養生節目就可以見得。當今最常見的一些健康問題睏擾著大量的人,如糖尿病、肥胖、心腦血管疾病、癌癥等等。生活在現如今這個到處都是誘惑你吃掉各種東西的時代,這些疾病會讓每一個年輕時候的“...
評分人類在進化的早期,一直處於能量稀缺的狀態,因而演化齣或者是通過淘汰挑選齣瞭能高效能轉化糖、澱粉為脂肪的基因,這些基因在人類早期一直起正麵作用,幫助人類渡過瞭一次次因冰河期導緻的大飢荒。但近現代生存環境改變瞭:廉價的高熱量深加工食品、久坐不動的辦公室環境、無...
評分人類在進化的早期,一直處於能量稀缺的狀態,因而演化齣或者是通過淘汰挑選齣瞭能高效能轉化糖、澱粉為脂肪的基因,這些基因在人類早期一直起正麵作用,幫助人類渡過瞭一次次因冰河期導緻的大飢荒。但近現代生存環境改變瞭:廉價的高熱量深加工食品、久坐不動的辦公室環境、無...
評分我們的身體寫著一個故事,一個遺傳的故事,也是一個演化的故事;我們不僅繼承瞭父母遺留的族裔特徵,也繼承瞭人類幾百萬年下來纍積的適應特徵。這就是身體的真相,一種歷經多重演化適應交錯與繁衍生存的結果,這樣的身體,其所有特徵有時會互相衝突,不同的矛盾形成各種不同的...
圖書標籤: 科普 進化 生命 science 英文原版 Evolution 生物學 醫學
道理不錯,但感覺太重復,可以精煉到1/3
評分道理不錯,但感覺太重復,可以精煉到1/3
評分“人類太罪過瞭”,伊吐齣一口香煙,慢慢講道。
評分一本關於人類進化的好書,但許多養生理論知易行難,明知道太鹹太甜太懶太舒服對人體都不好,但是要吃得清淡又動的勤快實在太麻煩瞭。
評分作者認為,農業/工業之後的環境/文化(主要是飲食消費文化)變化快於人類身體由於自然選擇變化的速度。我們身體和環境的互動中,産生瞭很多不適和造成瞭很多慢性病。這些“不適”是廣義的,小到我們穿鞋(鞋太舒適讓我們身體沒有按其應有的方式成行,於是很多運動/活動傷病)、齲齒等等,大到糖尿病和癌癥等病癥。我們要做的是改變自己的生活方式:少吃糖,多運動。
The Story of the Human Body 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載