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Learn why our bodies aren't adapted to the modern world in this animated book summary of The Story of The Human Body by Daniel Lieberman. Video produced by OnePercentBetter.
In The 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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★★★ HIGHLIGHTS ★★★
[0:56] LESSON 1: What Are Evolutionary Mismatches?
[2:05] LESSON 2: Mismatch Diseases and Why We Should Care About Them
[3:29] LESSON 3: Why Dysevolution Is Harming The World
[6:08] LESSON 4: Did Farming Screw Us Over?
[8:11] LESSON 5: Why Population Growth Makes Us Vulnerable
[8:59] LESSON 6: How Were We Affected By The Industrial Revolution?
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Learn why our bodies aren't adapted to the modern world in this animated book summary of The Story of The Human Body by Daniel Lieberman. Video produced by OnePercentBetter.
In The 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.
★★★ RELATED VIDEOS ★★★
Daniel Lieberman Interview ► youtu.be/JcMZ2xp7RL4
Top 7 Lessons From 134 Books ► youtu.be/Pr5e9b9ZjvA
The Bulletproof Diet ► youtu.be/cbN_ARQDIxU
★★★ HIGHLIGHTS ★★★
[0:56] LESSON 1: What Are Evolutionary Mismatches?
[2:05] LESSON 2: Mismatch Diseases and Why We Should Care About Them
[3:29] LESSON 3: Why Dysevolution Is Harming The World
[6:08] LESSON 4: Did Farming Screw Us Over?
[8:11] LESSON 5: Why Population Growth Makes Us Vulnerable
[8:59] LESSON 6: How Were We Affected By The Industrial Revolution?
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Become OnePercentBetter! ► bit.ly/1Wvllz8
★★★ WHAT SOFTWARE DO I USE? ★★★
VideoScribe - Get it here ► http://www.sparkol.com?aid=1371302
★★★ WANT TO READ MORE IN LESS TIME? ★★★
Get Blinkist - 1,800+ best-selling nonfiction books, transformed into powerful shorts you can read or listen to in just 15 minutes ► jump.blinkist.com/SHX3
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Please watch: "The 50th Law by Robert Greene and 50 Cent ► Book Summary"
youtube.com/watch?v=66NKywmi0Zs
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