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I can press one button on my phone and have Chinese, pizza, or fast food delivered in 30 minutes. So I am left thinking that maybe I am missing out on some big business opportunity. My brain isn't good at weeding out so many options. I have the option to pursue 1000 career choices and invest money into 10,000 different stocks. I would feel a hell of a lot better if I went to bed like the Amish do, when the sun sets. My house has lights that let me stay up all night and not get enough sleep. These advertisements are trying to take advantage of that trust. I see the billboards selling me things I probably don't need. That's a lot more than the 150 that Robin Dunbar, the Oxford anthropologist, said is the optimal number for my brain. I'm looking out my window right now at 1,062,000 people. The world that the hardwiring of you brain works best with has been replaced with a modern, crazy world.
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It's a village where you are encouraged to save and not spend everything you earn.īut guess what? That world is long gone. In that village you have 2 or 3 career choices but not more than that. The book covers much of this mismatch and explains how the hardwiring of your brain is adapted to be really good at living in a small village of about 150 people.Ī village where you go to bed around 7:30pm, sleep 8 hours, eat tons of vegetables and a little meat, and where you fall in love and have kids with an old friend you have known since childhood. I was reading for today's Book-Of-The-Day, Daniel Lieberman's, The Story Of The Human Body. What do I mean by this concept of the mismatch? It's the "mismatch." And there is one thing sure to bring you the "good life: Health, Wealth, Love, Happiness." It's avoiding the "mismatch." His research and discoveries have been highlighted in newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Discover, and National Geographic.There is one thing sure to kill your hopes and dreams. He has written nearly 100 articles, many appearing in the journals Nature and Science, and his cover story on barefoot running in Nature was picked up by major media the world over. 'Riveting, enlightening, and more than a little frightening' - Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Runĭaniel Lieberman is the Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and a leader in the field. The Story of the Human Body, by one of our leading experts, takes us on an epic voyage' - Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish How is the present-day state of the human body related to the past? And what is the human body's future? The 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. 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 Daniel Lieberman, are out of synch with our stone-age bodies. It's also normal to spend much of your time nursing, napping, making stone tools, and gossiping with a small band of people. 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 kilometres a day to hunt and gather fresh food which is high in fibre, low in sugar, and barely processed. This ground-breaking book of popular science explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodies