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The Story of the Human Body
- Evolution, Health, and Disease
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman - chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field - gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning this paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease.
The Story of the Human Body brilliantly illuminates as never before the major transformations that contributed key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the advent of hunting and gathering, leading to our superlative endurance athleticism; the development of a very large brain; and the incipience of cultural proficiencies. Lieberman also elucidates how cultural evolution differs from biological evolution, and how our bodies were further transformed during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.
While these ongoing changes have brought about many benefits, they have also created conditions to which our bodies are not entirely adapted, Lieberman argues, resulting in the growing incidence of obesity and new but avoidable diseases, such as type 2 diabetes. Lieberman 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 even compel us to create a more salubrious environment.
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- Vikanshu
- 28-09-20
Brilliant book
brilliantly puts evolutionary logic behind today's health woes. loved it. thanks
well narrated and storyline is perfect as well
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- Trebla
- 08-04-18
Could Have Been Good, but...
The Professor traded his lectern in for a pulpit. I was hoping for a detailed march of human evolution as documented by science and giving connection to the environmental changes that brought them on.
Instead was a rather verbose listing of a few of his favorite themes- like flat feet which he brought up again & again. Despite his tenure at a university with a medical school it seems he did not talk to folks there for insight and context of several issues like lipid metabolism, shoe wear, & back pain. On several points with which I am very familiar, he is just wrong.
While telling us repeatedly about the terror of toxins in our environment he never talks about Hazard vs Risk which is very germane to any discussion of evolution.
The first few chapters on the evolution of Homo erectus and the development of bipedal gait covers well known ground, but does it with such astounding number of words & repetition as to obfuscate the important points. The last several chapters say -don't get fat, exercise, & eat a reasonable diet.
Your money is better spent elsewhere
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- Mark
- 10-09-15
From tree to car
This is a really enjoyable book. I suppose the points made aren’t all that novel or mind-blowing, but they are made in a really entertaining, comprehensive and satisfying way and it is packed with insights reinforcing the world-view of evolutionary biology that I’ve gleaned from similar audiobooks on related topics.
The author is a Harvard professor of biology, and the subject is the human body. He spends the first half of the book describing how the human body evolved since the time of our last common ancestor with the other great apes. Over these six million years or so our bodies have changed due to a sequence of important adaptations, and his explanations of each of these changes and their advantages in the environmental conditions of the time are truly enlightening. Although some of these are well-known to the point of being clichéd, e.g. becoming bipedal, losing our fur, developing better voice-boxes, etc, he describes each of these steps to a level of detail that really boosted my understanding of the subject.
An example of this is the bipedal adaptation. In order to become efficient walkers our legs got longer, our hips turned inwards, we developed arches in our feet, and the end result was that we use significantly fewer calories to cover a given distance compared to a chimp. We covered long distances in great heat to find food, losing our fur and developing sweat glands to facilitate this activity in the hot African sun – retaining head hair to protect us from sunburn. I knew that we were good walkers but I hadn’t previously realised that we also evolved as runners. We are very slow runners compared to most of our predators (e.g. lions) and I thought that was just the price we had to pay for becoming bipedal and freeing up our hands for tool-use. But actually, while being rubbish at sprinting, we are excellent, well-evolved long-distance runners. There is evidence that we hunted large mammals using a ‘persistence’ method; We would patiently jog after a large mammal, which would gallop off until it had to rest in the shade. We would catch up with it and it would gallop off again before it had time to fully recover, and this sequence would continue until the beast eventually collapsed with heat-stroke, making it an easy kill.
The second part of the book focuses on the concept of evolutionary ‘mismatch’. This is a detailed look at how, when faced with a changing environment, our bodies have initially been poorly matched and have taken time to adapt. There is then a special emphasis on the mismatches that we currently face, with our modern Western lifestyle (the extremely new environment of chairs, beds, computers, pollution, abundant high calorie food, etc, etc).
So many modern chronic diseases seem to be associated with us using our bodies in ways they weren’t adapted for. They are too numerous to mention, but examples are heart disease, fallen arches, type 2 diabetes, short-sightedness and lower back pain. These diseases are rare in present day hunter-gatherer societies, and it isn’t because they don’t live long enough to succumb to these ‘old-age’ disorders, the older members of these societies don’t typically get them either.
So there’s a really good discussion of how modern ailments have resulted from the mismatch between our bodies and our new environment. Again, this is not a particularly novel idea, but it’s a thorough and stimulating discussion with many suggestions for how we could prevent or reduce these diseases, both on a societal and a personal level. If you’re interested in this kind of stuff, I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
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- Gary
- 25-03-14
Humans are dynamic not static
I loved the first half of this book. It's hard to find a good book on human evolution. The author steps you through the evolutionary development of man from 2.3 million years ago to 250 thousand years ago and does this part of the book as good as or better than any other book on the topic. He principally looks at why the homo species decided to walk upright and become bipedal and considers the relative advantages and the disadvantages that this brought. It's hard to find good books on that topic. I never grow tired about learning about Neanderthals, Denisovans and early man. He actually develops a theory that our evolution and development is best thought of in terms of calorie (energy) consumption and usage a pretty good theory at that.
At near the midway part of the book, the author says that he used to stop his lectures on human evolution at 40 thousand years ago. I wish he stopped the book at that point, but, unfortunately, he did not.
He states that the agricultural and industrial revolution are the worst things that ever happened to us and he seems to mean it. (He quotes Jared Diamond to that effect, but Diamond might say that but doesn't dwell on that in his much better books than this one). The author tells the listener that modern hunter gatherer groups live longer and with less pain when you factor out tobacco and alcohol. All the negative things the author says about our diet and exercise (lack thereof) is true, but we are learning and we are moving ahead and adapting culturally.
I'm a rational optimist. Humans are dynamic and we are learning as we progress and we just don't stand still as more data becomes available to us. The author is right, adult onset diabetes (Type II) is a scourge for out bodies, but we are changing are behaviors and we are learning from our past mistakes.
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- Jennifer
- 02-05-14
Truly worthwhile read
What did you love best about The Story of the Human Body?
I loved they way he made sense of modern diseases and conditions against the background of our evolutionary human experience. He does this with tremendous sensitivity to our attachment to modern cultural traditions, so that one doesn't end up feeling attacked or guilty about the evolutionary mis-matches, just more aware of their existence and how to minimize health problems from this perspective.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Story of the Human Body?
His explanation of dentition and its relationship to modern types of food is really interesting. I had no idea that cavities and impacted wisdom teeth were modern problems that are entirely preventable by changing one's eating habits, especially for children.
Which scene was your favorite?
His explanations of prehistoric peoples' movement level relative to ours was really fascinating. I always knew that our sedentary lifestyle causes problems, but I never understood "sedentary relative to what?" Once he explained how humans and other hominids lived and moved and functioned prior to settling down and establishing farms, I really understood why our modern sitting/driving/lazing-around has such a massive impact on our health, and in so many diverse areas (cardiovascular, brain, emotional well-being, skeletal resilience, etc)
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Our human past illuminates your health
Any additional comments?
I really liked this book, it was kind of addictive. I learned so many valuable principles for health maintenance, and the author is an extremely intelligent person who has devoted decades of study to these issues. I highly recommend this book.
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- G-Man
- 17-10-13
A great discussion of human evolution/physiology
I love human evolution books. This one didn't get started for me until well into the 2nd chapter because it is basic knowledge. The rest of the book goes into length and specifics discussing hominid development from a physiological perspective. I am familiar with most of the material from other audiobooks but enjoyed the overview. It is easy to follow and discusses how pre-humans and early humans compare. 4 stars because much of the info is standard fair.
This is a good science book for audio.
It may be too familiar for some listeners [nerds] who are familiar with the topic.
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- Gaby
- 17-03-19
Nothing new at all repetitive
Repetitive ad nauseam!!
Nothing to learn really.
A diarrhea of words ideas and sentences repeated again and again beyond boredom. It became irritating. Insanely repetitive.
Could say the same few concepts in one chapter.
Avoid it! Skip it!
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- Kazuhiko
- 08-01-14
They should make us read this book in high school
I think this is the first time I rate a book with five stars for both story and performance. So many of the diseases prevalent in modern societies (e.g., Type 2 diabetes) are called "mismatch disease" because they are caused by mismatch of the modern life style such as abundance of food (of unbalanced kind) vs. our evolutionary tendency to store fat and sugar when we can because food was scarce. This book provides a comprehensive view on how we humans developed since our ancestors started walking on two feet. The author has a rare quality of being able to translate his research expertise to its public health implications. I feel lucky to be alive in this age when books like this can teach us the evolutionary perspective on how we are living now compared to the past and what can be improved. It is also devastating to know that so many of modern diseases are preventable, and yet, important information like this has not seeped into the mainstream culture.
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- Elaine
- 16-10-13
Interesting
There was more history than I needed to know. I almost quit listening. I am glad I kept with the book I learned a lot about the the body and why and how we are abusing it. The bottom line is "Diet and Exercise".
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- A.M.
- 15-11-19
Excellent
This is a tremendous work. Very informative and enlightening. A great follow up to the works of Diamond and Harari.
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- Jim Fuqua
- 23-03-14
Very Informative Book
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease is an excellent book.
The author is head of the Evolutionary Biology Department at Harvard. It appears that many of the negative reviews are by people who don't believe evolution happens. If you strongly hold to that view yourself you probably will be offended by every page of this book.
The book starts by telling you more details concerning early humanoids than you may want to know, but if you stick with the book for fifty or sixty pages the relevance of the information to modern humans becomes more apparent. The longer you stick with the book the more you are likely to enjoy it.
Ultimately there is much information relevant to how we live today and how we should be living given our likely genetic predispositions.
The one issue that I would like to have heard more about is how or if evolution had much impact on diseases of the elderly when our ancestors rarely lived to the ages we commonly live today.
Overall --- a very good book.
Jim Fuqua
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- Mister Peridot
- 21-03-14
Awfully slow
This book covers the subject of human evolution from primordial apes in the last 5 million years. Well written, it contains much of interest. But its also very repetitive and painfully slow at times. The reader exacerbates the slow pace by adopting a sleepy if congenial tone. Its as if the reader personally knew everyone who existed and is saddened by their demise. And having been around for so long he could do with a good nap.
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- Annika
- 21-01-14
Excellent book, 'melancholic' performance
Excellent book, summing up the latest scientific findings from evolutionary biology regarding Man's 'bodily status', genetic inheritance, etc. Also provides a sound and scientifically grounded anchor to all the recent diet fads, such as 'Wheat Belly' and 'Grain Brain'.
Unfortunately, the text is somewhat marred by the 'tired' and 'sad-sounding' reading, giving it an air of unwarranted melancholia. Hard to understand the producer's choice here, given that the book is not written by an 'old' man, nor - as a scientific text - is particularly suited to that kind of tone?
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- Amirah Sanneh
- 27-04-18
After the Origin of Species! This book is the one!
I relate to this book big time because I read the tile of Charles Darwin's " On the Origin of Species!" And can see and understand every chapter on this book. All this book is pointing out is "Missmatch Diseases " and " Disevolution" ! As Mankin saw the trick of life, It's our time now to materialise the saying " Man was born on Earth but will not die on Earth" it sound silly but of all species that evolved on Earth and Extinct on Earth did really die on Earth. As President Emmanuel Macron of France said " There is NO Planet B" Really means that once we destroy our planet, really there's no second Planet to go to.
Mismatch Diseases and Disevolution must be managed and eradicated as long as we want to Enjoy Mother Earth for the foreseeable future
period!!!
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- m
- 01-10-16
most informative
Simply speed up his voice a little and it is easier to digest if you have a meandering mind like mine. I downloaded this by mistake but am very glad I listened to it in its entirety... I was meant to hear it.
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- Mrs H Herring
- 19-07-18
brilliant
an excellent book, v.interesting & well explained makes easy listening with relaxing narration. bit heavy in parts but will be playing again and again. defo recommend
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- A-damouk
- 19-07-18
Incredible Book
Everybody in the world should read this book. Brilliantly written and delivered. I read it for one reason and was enlightened in so many other different ways. Definitely recommend!
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- Silviu Blajut
- 30-06-18
life-changing
the way Lieberman told the story is unique and different. you should read it or listen it, as I did.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-06-18
❤️
Love how it ttansforms evolutionary biology to a simple story. You'll value your body so differently after finishing it.
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- Mr. S. D. Dowden
- 13-06-18
a must read. very informative, especially the last few chapters. I would highly recommend this
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- Wild Bunny
- 26-02-18
Brilliant
Just a short review but I really enjoyed this and it gave me plenty of food for thought.
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- Tom Reilly
- 03-08-15
Answering questions you have never asked!!
Simply put this book makes you think about your everyday life and the modern surroundings we have found ourselves in. Very interesting and full of facts and observations about humans that will keep you entertained.
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- Don
- 22-02-16
This book explains a lot!
The story of human evolution, the different pathways of different species and how that relates to what we are now is one story in this book and it prepares the reader for what comes next - the q.e.d, the bottom line.
You see the author connects all that with the state of our health today, disease by disease and it is simply fascinating. It follows that if most people understood why we get so many chronic diseases they would be more inclined to act to reduce disease. With healthcare costs becoming unsustainable, people must become more accountable for allowing themselves to succumb to some diseases. This book explains why and that knowledge is, for this humble reader, life changing.
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- Laura Tikotin
- 16-01-15
Very informative and well written.
This book answered so many questions I didn't even know I had, and explained a lot I'd always been curious about. Every chapter makes me wants to spend years researching evolutionary biology because it sounds like the most interesting thing in the world. I'm going to listen to it at least half a dozen times, it's definitely worth it. Buy it.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-06-22
High school biology lesson
This book might be good but if you had biology in high school you would know everything that he is talking about. Was waiting for the good part, to learn something new. I had to exit the audio, felt like it was never going to get more interesting.
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- Ivana Middeldorp
- 18-06-22
Enlightening and informative. Highly recommend.
This book was enlightning and informative. I highly recommend it as I found it life-changing.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-06-20
Absolutely loved it!
I absolutely loved and enjoyed this book, it was extremely informative and written and read so well. The author made everything interesting and easy to follow, while also breaking down all the complex topics covered. If you’re interested in the origins of homo sapien and everything along that comes with our history and health, then this is a must read.
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- Rob
- 07-09-19
very detailed explanation of De-evolution
The information is presented as a continuation of lectures following the series on evolution that ends at 7000 years ago when evolutionary shaping is overtaken by cultural shaping.
I found the pace slow and at times monotonous but the message and information fascinating.
I doubt that there's a student or practitioner in the health industry who wouldn't benefit from the arguments of this book, since part of our mandate is to educate clients suffering from "Mismatched Diseases".
I will take the time to listen again and I believe many will find it worth the effort to pay attention to this powerful message.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-02-19
Overall good
Really well researched info! However, personally, I just selected a few insights. I was expecting more!
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- Annalie
- 07-12-18
This book has a crucial message for modern humans
The 1st part of the book is a fascinating account of the evolutionary development of the human body, explaining why modern humans have the bodies we have.
The second part of the book addresses the modern lifestyle ailments humans encounter due to cultural evolution, the changes that the human body is not adapted to handle.
The author conclude with some alternative actions by governments that may be applied to address our increasing lifestyle diseases and other ailments. Very well reasoned, food for thought and action!
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- David
- 26-04-17
Fascinating
A very succinct book explaining how and why we are they way we are. As a physiotherapist I would recommend it for anyone interested in their health and wellbeing plus other health professionals