Paleofantasy
What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Debunks beliefs based on the assumption that human beings have finished evolving and defends the assertion that modern man is not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors.
Contents:
Cavemen in condos -- Are we stuck? -- Crickets, sparrows, and Darwins- or, evolution before our eyes -- The perfect paleofantasy diet : milk -- The perfect paleofantasy diet : meat, grains, and cooking -- Exercising the paleofantasy -- Paleofantasy love -- The paleofantasy family -- Paleofantasy, in sickness and in health -- Are we still evolving? : a tale of genes, altitude, and earwax.
Subjects:
Human evolution.
Social evolution.
Hunting and gathering societies.
Prehistoric peoples -- Food.
Prehistoric peoples -- Sexual behavior.
Human evolution.
Social evolution.
Hunting and gathering societies.
Prehistoric peoples -- Food.
Prehistoric peoples -- Sexual behavior.
ISBN:
9780393081374 (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Evolution Zuk | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-314) and index.