Daniel E. Lieberman – författare

If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging stories and explanations will revolutionize the way you think about exercising—not to mention sitting, sleeping, sprinting, weight lifting, playing, fighting, walking, jogging, and even dancing.“Strikes a perfect balance of scholarship, wit, and enthusiasm.” —Bill Bryson, New York Times best-selling author of The Body• If we are born to walk and run, why do most of us take it easy whenever possible?• Does running ruin your knees?• Should we do weights, cardio, or high-intensity training?• Is sitting really the new smoking?• Can you lose weight by walking?• And how do we make sense of the conflicting, anxiety-inducing information about rest, physical activity, and exercise with which we are bombarded?In this myth-busting book, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity, tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise—to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world, Lieberman recounts without jargon how and why humans evolved to walk, run, dig, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion.Exercised is entertaining and enlightening but also constructive. As our increasingly sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases such as diabetes, Lieberman audaciously argues that to become more active we need to do more than medicalize and commodify exercise.Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology and anthropology, Lieberman suggests how we can make exercise more enjoyable, rather than shaming and blaming people for avoiding it. He also tackles the question of whether you can exercise too much, even as he explains why exercise can reduce our vulnerability to the diseases mostly likely to make us sick and kill us.

A brilliant, no-nonsense look at two questions we never evolved to ask but now must consider several times a day: what should we eat, and why?Daniel E. Lieberman—bestselling author of The Story of the Human Body and Exercised, and founding chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University—cuts through all the confusing and contradictory advice on diet and wellness to ar­gue that there can be no simple, definitive answer. Drawing from evolutionary biol­ogy, physiology, anthropology, anatomy, medical science, and history, Lieberman examines, with brio and wit, the history and health effects of food from before the invention of cooking up to today’s industrially produced diets. He shows how we evolved to eat almost anything, and by evalu­ating and trying many of these diets (raw food, Paleo, Mediterranean, Blue Zone, intermittent fasting, Atkins, DASH), he helps you understand why none is flawless though some are better than others.Lieberman explores the costs and benefits of cheap, energy-rich, tempting, and often unhealthy ultra-processed foods; the tangled roots of weight gain; how diet influences obesity, heart disease, and cancer; and the claims of benefits offered by high- and low-fat diets, meal replacements, inter­mittent fasting, carnivorism, vegetarianism, and veganism—while also showing how over centu­ries most cultures evolved ingenious ways to grow and cook healthy, delicious food.This fascinating and entertaining sci­ence-based book on nutrition, digestion, and health will teach you how to be well fed instead of fed up with dietary hucksterism.

In one sense, human heads function much like those of other mammals. We use them to chew, smell, swallow, think, hear, and so on. But, in other respects, the human head is quite unusual. Unlike other animals, even our great ape cousins, our heads are short and wide, very big brained, snoutless, largely furless, and perched on a short, nearly vertical neck. Daniel E. Lieberman sets out to explain how the human head works, and why our heads evolved in this peculiarly human way.Exhaustively researched and years in the making, this innovative book documents how the many components of the head function, how they evolved since we diverged from the apes, and how they interact in diverse ways both functionally and developmentally, causing them to be highly integrated. This integration not only permits the head’s many units to accommodate each other as they grow and work, but also facilitates evolutionary change. Lieberman shows how, when, and why the major transformations evident in the evolution of the human head occurred. The special way the head is integrated, Lieberman argues, made it possible for a few developmental shifts to have had widespread effects on craniofacial growth, yet still permit the head to function exquisitely.This is the first book to explore in depth what happened in human evolution by integrating principles of development and functional morphology with the hominin fossil record. The Evolution of the Human Head will permanently change the study of human evolution and has widespread ramifications for thinking about other branches of evolutionary biology.

Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft unseres Körpers - das StandartwerkWir glauben unseren Körper zu kennen, Veränderungen einschätzen zu können und leben heute so gesund und wohlgenährt wie nie zuvor. Gleichzeitig leiden wir an vielen, bereits zum Alltag gehörenden Erkrankungen wie Diabetes, zahlreichen Allergien, Herzproblemen oder Rückenbeschwerden. Wie es dazu kommen konnte, zeigt uns der Evolutionsbiologe Daniel E. Lieberman in seiner Biographie des menschlichen Körpers. Er stellt dar, wie unsere Lebensbedingungen vor langer Zeit den Körper geprägt haben, und wie das zu den heutigen Leiden führt. Anschaulich und spannend erklärt er nicht nur die Zusammenhänge, sondern zeigt auch, wie wir heute unsere Gesundheit positiv beeinflussen können.»Monumental. [...] Durch Liebermans Augen wird die Evolutionsgeschichte nicht nur lebendig, sie wird auch der Schlüssel, die Zukunft unseres Körpers zu verstehen und zu beeinflussen.« Neil Shubin»Keiner versteht den menschlichen Körper so gut und erzählt seine Geschichte so eloquent wie Daniel Lieberman.« Christopher McDougall, Autor von »Born to Run«

Ihmiskehon lyhyt historia on innostava kertomus ihmiskunnan historiasta ja oman kehomme evoluutiosta. Ihminen ei ole aikoinaan kehittynyt tiettyjä olosuhteita varten, vaan kehomme on sekoitus ominaisuuksia, jotka olemme perineet lukuisilta edeltäviltä lajeilta. Tarkat heitot mahdolliseksi tekevä olkapäämme on peräisin Homo erectukselta ja poskihampaamme Australopithecus-lajeilta.Daniel E. Lieberman on maailman johtavia ihmisen evoluutiobiologian tutkijoita. Hän tarjoaa poikkeuksellisen katsauksen oman kehomme miljoonien vuosien mittaiseen kehitykseen ja sen tulevaisuuden näkymiin.Ihmisen elimistö on ainutlaatuinen, mutta kehomme ei ole ennättänyt sopeutua maanviljelyn, karjatalouden ja teollisen vallankumouksen synnyttämiin, evoluution näkökulmasta salamannopeisiin muutoksiin. Ihminen pystyy juoksemaan antiloopin uuvuksiin savannilla ja meidät on tarkoitettu liikkumaan paljon. Tästä syystä nykyiset elämäntapamme uhkaavat aiheuttaa eräänlaisen 'elintasosairauksien tsunamin'.Ongelmaan ei Liebermanin mukaan ole lääketieteellisiä, vaan ainoastaan kulttuurisia ja sosiaalisia ratkaisuja: meidän täytyy jälleen rakentaa yhteiskuntamme sellaiseksi, että se suosii omalle kehollemme soveltuvia elintapoja.

Ihmiskehon lyhyt historia on innostava kertomus ihmiskunnan historiasta ja oman kehomme evoluutiosta. Ihminen ei ole aikoinaan kehittynyt tiettyjä olosuhteita varten, vaan kehomme on sekoitus ominaisuuksia, jotka olemme perineet lukuisilta edeltäviltä lajeilta. Tarkat heitot mahdolliseksi tekevä olkapäämme on peräisin Homo erectukselta ja poskihampaamme Australopithecus-lajeilta.Daniel E. Lieberman on maailman johtavia ihmisen evoluutiobiologian tutkijoita. Hän tarjoaa poikkeuksellisen katsauksen oman kehomme miljoonien vuosien mittaiseen kehitykseen ja sen tulevaisuuden näkymiin.Ihmisen elimistö on ainutlaatuinen, mutta kehomme ei ole ennättänyt sopeutua maanviljelyn, karjatalouden ja teollisen vallankumouksen synnyttämiin, evoluution näkökulmasta salamannopeisiin muutoksiin. Ihminen pystyy juoksemaan antiloopin uuvuksiin savannilla ja meidät on tarkoitettu liikkumaan paljon. Tästä syystä nykyiset elämäntapamme uhkaavat aiheuttaa eräänlaisen 'elintasosairauksien tsunamin'.Ongelmaan ei Liebermanin mukaan ole lääketieteellisiä, vaan ainoastaan kulttuurisia ja sosiaalisia ratkaisuja: meidän täytyy jälleen rakentaa yhteiskuntamme sellaiseksi, että se suosii omalle kehollemme soveltuvia elintapoja.

A brilliant, no-nonsense look at two questions we never evolved to ask but now must consider several times a day: what should we eat, and why?Daniel E. Lieberman—bestselling author of The Story of the Human Body and Exercised, and founding chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University—cuts through all the confusing and contradictory advice on diet and wellness to ar­gue that there can be no simple, definitive answer. Drawing from evolutionary biol­ogy, physiology, anthropology, anatomy, medical science, and history, Lieberman examines, with brio and wit, the history and health effects of food from before the invention of cooking up to today’s industrially produced diets. He shows how we evolved to eat almost anything, and by evalu­ating and trying many of these diets (raw food, Paleo, Mediterranean, Blue Zone, intermittent fasting, Atkins, DASH), he helps you understand why none is flawless though some are better than others.Lieberman explores the costs and benefits of cheap, energy-rich, tempting, and often unhealthy ultra-processed foods; the tangled roots of weight gain; how diet influences obesity, heart disease, and cancer; and the claims of benefits offered by high- and low-fat diets, meal replacements, inter­mittent fasting, carnivorism, vegetarianism, and veganism—while also showing how over centu­ries most cultures evolved ingenious ways to grow and cook healthy, delicious food.This fascinating and entertaining sci­ence-based book on nutrition, digestion, and health will teach you how to be well fed instead of fed up with dietary hucksterism.