He is the author of the national best seller The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease and Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rearding. Story of the Human Body asks how our bodies got to be the way they are, and considers how that evolutionary history - both ancient and recent - can help us evaluate how we use our bodies. Lerner Professor of Biological Sciences and professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Never have we been so healthy and long-lived - but never, too, have we been so prone to a slew of problems that were, until recently, rare or unknown, from asthma, to diabetes, to - scariest of all - overpopulation. Our 21st-century lifestyles, argues Dan Lieberman, are out of synch with our stone-age bodies. Liebermanchair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the fieldgives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved.
In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman loves teaching and has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, many in journals such as Nature, Science, and PNAS, as well as three popular books, The Evolution of the Human Head (2011), The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease (2013), and Exercised: Why Something We. The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease Oct 1, 2013. It's also normal to spend much of your time nursing, napping, making stone tools, and gossiping with a small band of people. He is best known for his work on the evolution of running and other kinds of physical activities such as walking and throwing, but is also well known for studying the evolution of the human head. 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 kilometers a day to hunt and gather fresh food which is high in fibre, low in sugar, and barely processed.
Story of the Human Body explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. How we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodies