Identifies the dietary and lifestyle behaviors of the Paleolithic era while arguing that many common diseases, including aging, can be avoided, explaining the benefits of such principles as eating strategically, exercising periodically, and skipping meals.
Explains what your body is "thinking" and tells you why your genes actually want you to be fat, and that by deactivating these "killer genes," you can reprogram your body for the health, life, looks, and longevity you desire. Reprint.
Our ancestral diets have been critical to our success as a species. This volume brings together experts in human and primate ecology, paleontology, and evolutionary medicine.
Are our bodies and brains truly at odds with modern life? Although it may seem as though we have barely had time to shed our hunter-gatherer legacy, biologist Marlene Zuk reveals that the story is not so simple.
In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus.
Riley's contribution was recognized by his appointment to the distinguished French Legion of Honor. Riley's evolutionary insight also led him to caution that the American Concorde grape—which is a hybrid, not a graft, ...
The book tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise - to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health.
The simple way to lose weight, look younger and feel healthier - without restricting calories or excessive exercising The De Vany Diet is Professor Arthur De Vany's astonishing lifestyle programme....
Darwin never used that phrase (it was coined in 1864 by Hebert Spencer), nor would he have, because natural selection is better described as “survival of the fitter.” Natural selection doesn't produce perfection; it only weeds out those ...
This could have caused their elimination if an unexpected saviour had not appeared, namely industrialism. The soot from Manchester's smoke stacks blackened the area's birch trees so severely that suddenly it was the grey speckled ...
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