The Story of the Human Body pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
Daniel Lieberman is the Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and a leader in the field. He has wpublished nearly 100 articles, many appearing in the journals Nature and Science. His research and discoveries have been highlighted in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Discover, and National Geographic. He has frequently appeared on Nova, the BBC, and Charlie Rose, among other programs.
- 科普
- 进化
- 生命
- science
- 英文原版
- Evolution
- 生物学
- 醫學
A landmark book of popular science—a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fueling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease.
In a book that illuminates, as never before, the evolutionary story of the human body, Daniel Lieberman deftly examines the major transformations that contributed key adaptations to the body: the advent of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the rise of hunting and gathering and our superlative endurance athletic abilities; the development of a very large brain; and the incipience of modern cultural abilities. He elucidates how cultural evolution differs from biological evolution, and how it further transformed our bodies during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. Lieberman illuminates how these ongoing changes have brought many benefits, but also have created novel conditions to which our bodies are not entirely adapted, resulting in a growing incidence of obesity and new but avoidable diseases, including type-2 diabetes. He proposes that many of these chronic illnesses persist and in some cases are intensifying because of "dysevolution," a pernicious dynamic whereby only the symptoms rather than the causes of these maladies are treated. And finally—provocatively—he advocates the use of evolutionary information to help nudge, push, and sometimes oblige us to create a more salubrious environment.
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1、本书是科普读物，至少在我看来是的，从进化论，到21世纪的现代人，作者的讲解非常引人入胜并且在现代人的很多问题上很引发人的思考，也让我们更多的去认识我们自己以及我们从何而来 2、读完这本书，会忍不住想对我们的大学和高中教育说，希望他们可以多一些这种科普并且已经...
评分在每天上下班路上看完了这本书，很有意思的科普书，从进化史的角度分析了某些疾病大量爆发的原因，就此提出失配性疾病的概念，简而言之，我们的身体是进化的产物，而进化的目的是为了促进生殖繁衍，因此当科技发展、社会进步的力量过大过快，身体的基因却依然停留在适应过去，...
评分在“瘦即是正义”的时代，人们关注美似乎多过健康，而瘦也成了部分人追求美的偏执目标。尤其是很多年轻女孩子，当她们对着穿衣镜审视自己的身体，首先关心的是自己胖不胖，而不是健康不健康。 当然，追求健康美的也大有人在。健身达人备受推崇，运动方法和健身配餐在各种渠道都...
评分文|轻禅 近些年，人类患罕见病的概率似乎上升了，尤其是一些很难治愈的疾病，譬如2型糖尿病、心脏病、癌症等。不知从何时起，这些疾病成为如今人类的困扰。据报道称，到2045年，人群中患有癌症的比例可达到1/3，这可怕的数字，实在是让人心惊胆颤。面对病魔，人类首先想到...
评分我們的身體寫著一個故事，一個遺傳的故事，也是一個演化的故事；我們不僅繼承了父母遺留的族裔特徵，也繼承了人類幾百萬年下來累積的適應特徵。這就是身體的真相，一種歷經多重演化適應交錯與繁衍生存的結果，這樣的身體，其所有特徵有時會互相衝突，不同的矛盾形成各種不同的...
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前三分之一讲physical anthropology其实和核心内容没有太大关系，浪费了不少笔墨。整本书的口吻很像教科书，比如key points明明白白地告诉你“要记就记这个吧”，还有很多时候反复申明一个论点。虽然这么写很清楚，但科普写作应该能做得更好吧？
评分不少疾病是进化跟不上社会变迁的表现。关节不好，最好的治疗方式可能是光脚跑步，锻炼腿部脚步肌肉。
评分We must cultivate our bodies. 说白了还是多吃蔬菜瓜果、少坐多运动，抵制自己想吃sweet、fat的深加工食品，享受rest and relaxation的instinct。现代病都是现代化带来的“恶果”，重拾原始人的diet和运动量。
评分道理不错，但感觉太重复，可以精炼到1/3
评分不少疾病是进化跟不上社会变迁的表现。关节不好，最好的治疗方式可能是光脚跑步，锻炼腿部脚步肌肉。
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