He shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning a paradox: greater longevity, but increased chronic disease. He illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism the shift to a non-fruit-based diet the advent of hunting and gathering and how cultural changes like the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions have impacted us physically. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E.
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