A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life (Unabridged) A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life (Unabridged)

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

A 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 troubles is clear: the accelerat­ing rate of change in the modern world has outstripped the capacity of our brains and bodies to adapt. We evolved to live in clans, but today many people don’t even know their neighbors’ names. In our haste to discard outdated gender roles, we increasingly deny the flesh-and-blood realities of sex—and its ancient roots. The cognitive dissonance spawned by trying to live in a society we are not built for is killing us.
 
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. Asking the questions many mod­ern people are afraid to ask, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century outlines a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life.

*This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF containing illustrations and charts from the book.

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
HH
Heather Heying
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
08:17
hr min
RELEASED
2021
September 14
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
515.6
MB

Customer Reviews

mejo1028 ,

Continuity

I enjoyed this book. However, there were a few issues, people showed up without much explanation on who they were they were just introduced and that was that. Also I was frustrated about Maddie. She is there she is one of the parents. She was the one who could touch people and read them. Not Story Ming. She had a completely different role and once she was released from the spell and was not mentioned anymore. Maddie came in during the return series and had a big role and it was implied she stuck around. Her daughter can do what she does. Story was not a fairly ever. I understand the author wrote the books a long time ago. But shouldn’t there be someone who double checks continuity. Other than those things it was an enjoyable book and I look forward to reading this new series. I would give it a five if the continuity was correct.

SG Lewis ,

Ridiculous.

I couldn’t make it through the first chapter.

Cap'n pirate ,

The problems of modernity as viewed through the lense of evolutionary biologists

Dr. Heying and Dr. Weinstein present the framework for thinking scientifically and evolutionarily in this book and how to navigate modernity and the hyper novel things we experience in our every day lives.

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