Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live

“I love this book…If anyone has been rubbed up the wrong way by the thought that there is one true way that we’ve evolved to be—and that if we just went back a little bit in time, we’d all be happier, thinner, healthier—this is definitely the book for them. Paleofantasy is a really informed look, by an evolutionary biologist, at the ways we imagine the past would have been, and the lies we tell ourselves today about what we evolved to do. So one particular example from the book that I really like is the takedown of this idea of a ‘paleo diet’, which is a particular bugbear of mine” Read more...

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Brenna Hassett, Anthropologist