the story of the human body: evolution, health, and disease by daniel e. lieberman

And today's burgeoning human ills - obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, sleep apnoea, terrible teeth, osteoporosis and so on - occur because we eat more generously than hunter-gatherers but work considerably less. It was the hunter-gatherer physique that got us to where we are now. Lieberman argues that it is “not just incorrect but also dangerous to view modern human evolution as solely a triumph of brains over brawn”. But longer legs make arboreal life difficult, so once humans got moving, they had to stay on the road. The legs of Homo erectus were 10–20% longer than those of the hominin Australopithecus, which meant the first humans could cover great distances at a lower energy cost. We are what we are because our bodies could do what they did. Publication: New York : Pantheon Books, 2013 Format/Description: Book xii, 460 pages : illustrations 25 cm Subjects: Human body. Author/Creator: Lieberman, Daniel E., 1964-Other Title: Human body : evolution, health, and disease Edition: First edition. The two-legs-good, four-legs-bad effect is discussed on at least 40 pages of The Story of the Human Body running, too, gets a good show. The story of the human body : evolution, health, and disease / Daniel E. Publication: New York : Pantheon Books, 2013 Copyright notice: 2013 Physical description: xii, 460 pages.

For the evolutionary biologist and barefoot runner Lieberman, however, bipedalism was a “monumental and consequential” shift.

The story of the human body: evolution, health, and disease by daniel e. lieberman