A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of

Description: A bold, provocative history of our species finds the roots of civilization's success and failure in our evolutionary biology. 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 neighbors' names. Traditional gender roles once served a necessary evolutionary purpose, but today we dismiss them as regressive. The cognitive dissonance spawned by trying to live in a society we're not built for is killing us. In this book, Heying and Weinstein cut through the politically fraught discourse surrounding issues like sex, gender, diet, parenting, sleep, education, and more to outline a provocative, 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 straight forward principles and guidance for confronting our culture of hyper-novelty. Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein are evolutionary biologists who have been invited to ad­dress the US Congress, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Education, and have spoken before audi­ences across the globe. They both earned PhDs in Biology from the University of Michigan, where their research on evolution and adaptation earned awards for its quality and innovation. They have been visiting fellows at Princeton University, and before that were professors at the Ever­green State College for fifteen years. They resigned from Evergreen in the wake of 2017 campus riots that focused in part on their opposition to a day of racial segregation and other college "equity" proposals. They cohost weekly livestreams of the DarkHorse podcast.

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Book Title: Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century : Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Number of Pages: 352 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Item Height: 1.1 in

Topic: Civilization, Hunting, Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, Life Sciences / Evolution, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology, Life Sciences / Biology

Publication Year: 2021

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Nature, Sports & Recreation, Social Science, Science, Psychology, History

Item Weight: 17.8 Oz

Author: Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying

Item Length: 9.3 in

Item Width: 6.2 in

Format: Hardcover