Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, an torrent

2013 | ISBN: 0393081370 | English | 336 Pages | EPUB | 3 MB

An expose of pseudoscientific myths about our evolutionary past and how we should live today.

We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football-or did we?

Are our bodies and brains truly at odds with modern life? Although it may seem as though we have barely had time to shed our hunter-gatherer legacy, biologist Marlene Zuk reveals that the story is not so simple.

Popular theories about how our ancestors lived-and why we should emulate them-are often based on speculation, not scientific evidence.