Paleofantasy : what evolution really tells us about sex, diet, and how we live / Marlene Zuk.

  • Zuk, Marlene, 1956-
Date:
[2013]
  • Books

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Description

Debunks beliefs based on the assumption that human beings have finished evolving and defends the assertion that modern man is not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors.

Publication/Creation

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]

Physical description

328 pages ; 25 cm

Contributors

Edition

First edition.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-314) and index.

Contents

Cavemen in condos -- Are we stuck? -- Crickets, sparrows, and Darwins- or, evolution before our eyes -- The perfect paleofantasy diet : milk -- The perfect paleofantasy diet : meat, grains, and cooking -- Exercising the paleofantasy -- Paleofantasy love -- The paleofantasy family -- Paleofantasy, in sickness and in health -- Are we still evolving? : a tale of genes, altitude, and earwax.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    AOS /ZUK
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780393081374
  • 0393081370