A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21stA Century : Evolution And The Challenges Of Modern Life

Audio Book and Diagrams - A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century.m4b - BK\_PENG\_005747.pdf A Bold, Provocative History Of Our Species Finds The Deep Origins Of Society's Success And Failure In Our Evolutionary History. We Are Living Through The Most Prosperous Age In All Of Human History, Yet People Are More Listless, Divided And Miserable Than Ever. Wealth And Comfort Are Unparalleled, And Yet Our Political Landscape Grows Ever More Toxic, And Rates Of Suicide, Loneliness, And Chronic Illness Continue To Skyrocket. How Do We Explain The Gap Between These Two Truths? What's More, What Can We Do To Close It? For Evolutionary Biologists Heather Heying And Bret Weinstein, The Cause Of Our Woes Is Clear: The Modern World Is Out Of Sync With Our Ancient Brains And Bodies. We Evolved To Live In Clans, But Today Most People Don't Even Know Their Neighbours' Names. Survival In Our Earliest Societies Depended On Living In Harmony With Nature, But Today The Food We Eat, The Work We Do-even The Light We Absorb-is Radically Different From What Our Minds And Bodies Evolved To Expect. The Cognitive Dissonance Created By Trying To Live In A Society We're Not Built For Is Killing Us. In This Book, Heying And Weinstein Cut Through The Noise Surrounding Issues Like Sex, Gender, Diet, Parenting, Sleep, Education, And Much Else Besides To Outline A Science-based Worldview That Will Empower You To Live A Better, Wiser Life. They Distill More Than 20 Years Of Research And First-hand Accounts From The Most Biodiverse Ecosystems On Earth Into Straightforward Principles And Guidance For Confronting Our Culture Of Hyper-novelty. A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes – and what we can do about it We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, loneliness and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respond? For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our woes is clear: the modern world is out of sync with our ancient brains and bodies. We evolved to live in clans, but today many people don't even know their neighbours'names. Survival in our earliest societies depended on living in harmony with nature, but today the food we eat, the work we do – even the light we absorb – is radically different from what our minds and bodies evolved to expect. In this book, Heying and Weinstein draw on decades of their work teaching in college classrooms and exploring earth's most biodiverse ecosystems to confront today's pressing social ills – from widespread sleep deprivation and dangerous diets to damaging parenting styles and backward education practices. A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century outlines a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life. "For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of many modern woes is clear: the world is out of sync with humans' ancient brains and bodies. The authors cut through the disputes surrounding issues like sex, gender, diet, parenting, sleep, education, and more to outline a science-based worldview that will empower the reader to live a better, wiser life. They distill more than twenty years of research and first-hand accounts from the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth into straightforward principles and guidance for confronting our culture of hyper-novelty"--Publisher's description