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Unfit for Purpose

- When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World
Af: Adam Hart Engelsk Hardback

Unfit for Purpose

- When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World
Af: Adam Hart Engelsk Hardback
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''A gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will.'' The Mail on Sunday

Stress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of modern world problems and every one of them is an echo of our evolutionary past.

In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biology and the modern world we have created. In each chapter Adam reveals the many ways in which biological adaptations that evolved to help us survive and thrive now work against us. For example, in the modern world stress is a killer but how did ''fight or flight'' instincts turn from life-savers to life-takers? Obesity is a disease now but is it also just a side-effect of our evolutionary past? Whether it’s the derailing of microbes in our gut, the rise of gluten and lactose intolerance, problems of social media or drug addiction, we always seem to have one foot in the modern world and the other firmly in our evolutionary past.

Adam explores science, archaeology, medicine, genetics, sociology and more, to show how, in a modern world of our own making, we find ourselves ‘unfit for purpose’. But all is not lost! In unpicking the causes of our current woes, he unearths some secrets of evolutionarily informed treatments that will change the way we think about ourselves and our future.

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''A gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will.'' The Mail on Sunday

Stress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of modern world problems and every one of them is an echo of our evolutionary past.

In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biology and the modern world we have created. In each chapter Adam reveals the many ways in which biological adaptations that evolved to help us survive and thrive now work against us. For example, in the modern world stress is a killer but how did ''fight or flight'' instincts turn from life-savers to life-takers? Obesity is a disease now but is it also just a side-effect of our evolutionary past? Whether it’s the derailing of microbes in our gut, the rise of gluten and lactose intolerance, problems of social media or drug addiction, we always seem to have one foot in the modern world and the other firmly in our evolutionary past.

Adam explores science, archaeology, medicine, genetics, sociology and more, to show how, in a modern world of our own making, we find ourselves ‘unfit for purpose’. But all is not lost! In unpicking the causes of our current woes, he unearths some secrets of evolutionarily informed treatments that will change the way we think about ourselves and our future.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9781472970992
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1472970993
Kategori: Evolution
Udg. Dato: 11 jun 2020
Længde: 33mm
Bredde: 224mm
Højde: 145mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 11 jun 2020
Forfatter(e): Adam Hart
Forfatter(e) Adam Hart

Kategori Evolution

ISBN-13 9781472970992

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 352

Udgave

Længde 33mm

Bredde 224mm

Højde 145mm

Udg. Dato 11 jun 2020

Oplagsdato 11 jun 2020

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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