Full name: Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live

Author: Marlene Zuk Year: 2013 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393081374 0393081370

We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football - or did we? Are our bodies and brains truly at odds with modern life? Although it may seem as though we have barely had time to shed our hunter-gatherer legacy, biologist Marlene Zuk reveals that the story is not so simple. Popular theories about how our ancestors lived - and why we should emulate them - are often based on speculation, not scientific evidence. Armed with a razor-sharp wit and brilliant, eye-opening research, Zuk takes us to the cutting edge of biology to show that evolution can work much faster than was previously realized, meaning that we are not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors. Similar books: The Monkey in the Mirror by Ian Tattersall Sexual Selections by Marlene Zuk Becoming Human by Ian Tattersall The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman The Book of Humans by Adam Rutherford Human Evolution by Bernard Wood The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum Why Is Sex Fun? by Jared Diamond The Scars of Evolution by Elaine Morgan Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan Evolution by James A. Shapiro Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne The Origin of Humankind by Richard Leakey The Complete World of Human Evolution by Chris Stringer Undeniable by Bill Nye The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert