Paleofantasy What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex Diet and How We Live

Name: Paleofantasy What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex Diet and How We Live
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ISBN: 9780393081374

ISBN-10: 0393081370

ISBN-13: 9780393081374

Edition: 2013

Authors: Marlene Zuk

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We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in caves rather than cities, to run barefoot rather than play rugby—or did we? As Marlene Zuk reveals, theories about how our ancestors lived—and why we should emulate them—are often based on pseudoscience and speculation rather than actual research. Taking us to the cutting edge of biology, Zuk explains that evolution can work much faster than was previously realized, meaning that we are not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors. She shows how our fetishized visions of an ideal evolutionary past in which we ate, lived, and reproduced as we were meant to can lead us astray and distract us from more interesting considerations of…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/18/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.364

MARLENE ZUK is a professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside, where she studies behavior in a variety of animals. She has written articles for numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times .



Introduction



Cavemen in Condos



Are We Stuck?



Crickets, Sparrows, and Darwins-or, Evolution before Our Eyes



The Perfect Paleofantasy Diet: Milk



The Perfect Paleofantasy Diet: Meat, Grains, and Cooking



Exercising the Paleofantasy



Paleofantasy Love



The Paleofantasy Family



Paleofantasy, in Sickness and in Health



Are We Still Evolving? A Tale of Genes, Altitude, and Earwax


Acknowledgments


Notes


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Index