The Story of the Human Body pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載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
- 進化
- 生命
- science
- 英文原版
- Evolution
- 生物學
- 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.
(With charts and line drawings throughout.)
具體描述
讀後感
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...
評分“人体进化史解释了我们的骨骼、心脏、肠道和大脑如何以及为何以现在的方式运作，解释了我们如何以及为何在短短600万年中，从非洲森林中的猿类变成了迈着大步直立行走的两足动物，而且可以借助望远镜遥望遥远的银河系。 无论你是否喜欢，我们都是那种略胖、无毛、两足行走的灵...
評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，...
用戶評價
四星半吧 現代生活習慣指南 有些地方略囉嗦
评分“人類太罪過瞭”，伊吐齣一口香煙，慢慢講道。
评分不少疾病是進化跟不上社會變遷的錶現。關節不好，最好的治療方式可能是光腳跑步，鍛煉腿部腳步肌肉。
评分收獲比較大的書，豐富瞭以前太過簡化的人類進化地圖。而且，從此喜歡上赤腳站立和跑步瞭。。。 我們不能在想怎樣就怎樣瞭，整個商業社會，就在利用我們進化生理上的弱點，損害我們的健康。 難得的是，觀點毫不偏激。
评分收獲比較大的書，豐富瞭以前太過簡化的人類進化地圖。而且，從此喜歡上赤腳站立和跑步瞭。。。 我們不能在想怎樣就怎樣瞭，整個商業社會，就在利用我們進化生理上的弱點，損害我們的健康。 難得的是，觀點毫不偏激。
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