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The Story of the Human Body

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

The Story of the Human Body

By Daniel Lieberman

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About the book

In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodiesThis ground-breaking book of popular science explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. From an evolutionary perspective, if normal is defined as what most people have done for millions of years, then it's normal to walk and run 9 -15 kilometres a day to hunt and gather fresh food which is high in fibre, low in suga...Show more

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9780141399959

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2014

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1

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The Story of the Human Body

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Paperback

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