Books by Marlene Zuk
“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...
The best books on Anthropology
Brenna Hassett, Anthropologist
Interviews where books by Marlene Zuk were recommended
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
by Rebecca Wragg Sykes -
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Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
by Peter Ungar -
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
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Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, Behavior
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Our Human Story
by Chris Stringer & Louise Humphrey
The best books on Anthropology, recommended by Brenna Hassett
The best books on Anthropology, recommended by Brenna Hassett
New techniques have uncovered an enormous amount of information about how humans evolved and new human species continue to pop up on a regular basis. Biological anthropologist Brenna Hassett, author of Growing Up Human, recommends books to learn more about our ancestors and how we became the human beings we are today.
