Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live - Couverture rigide

Zuk, Marlene

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393081370 ISBN 13 : 9780393081374

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2013

Synopsis

Theories about how our ancestors lived - and why we should emulate them - are often based on pseudoscience and speculation rather than actual research. Taking us to the cutting edge of biology, she explains that evolution can work faster than was previously realised, meaning that we are not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors. Zuk shows how our visions of an ideal evolutionary past in which we ate, lived and reproduced as we were "meant to" can lead us astray and distract us from more interesting considerations of how we differ from our forebears. Along the way, she debunks the caveman diet, discusses whether we're really designed to run barefoot and considers modern-day courtship and child-rearing practices in the context of how our ancestors lived.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marlene Zuk is a professor of biology at the University of California - Riverside and is the author of Sex on Six Legs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393081370
• ISBN 13: 9780393081374
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible