Story Of The Human Body Paperback – Illustrated, 1 July 2014

It is written in simple language while retaining the scientific rigor. It keeps focus on the practical even as it gives essential background info. I would recommend it to anyone who cares about his health.

Excellent,detailed and nuanced discussion of intricacies of exercise

The book describes; how disease and health are interlinked, how people have evolved, and so on. Overall, it's a good read though at some times the text loses the interest of the readers but at the end, it's a nice book to glance over and finish it.

A great informative content. Brilliantly analyzed and expressed. Lot of application in daily living from Ancestral and ancient history as Wisdom for contemporary living.

This book, by Daniel Lieberman, is excellent. The book starts by tracing human evolution; I applaud him for this. He systematically explains how small quirks in our evolutionary journey helped us become who we are.Our journey is fascinating because it contains the seeds of our success and the factors that can make us unwell.The concept of mismatch diseases is fascinating. This concept illustrates the cause of many of our problems. Our switch from a hunter-gatherer to an agrarian lifestyle will cause us problems and give us opportunities to become strong.With the industrial revolution, what does the future hold?An excellent book, well-written, it is essential reading. I hope he updates the book.

This book is by far the most accessible text on how humans evolved. Steeped in academic rigor but presented in a fashion that makes this complicated topic accessible to laypersons.Dr Lieberman contests that this is unlikely that we are going to outdo millions of years of evolution by a couple of centuries of scientific advancements. His recommendations for a healthy body are diet and exercise, backed by anthropological evidence.

The book starts with a good account of the evolution of our species. It has a useful summary of the numerous adaptions through its evolutionary history that the human body consists of. That it is not yet adapted to the modern conditions of life resulting in numerous mismatch diseases is also clearly argued. The story begins to pall when the author becomes a little tiringly repetitive when as remedies to the problems of evolutionary mismatch he suggests diets rich in fibres, avoidance of excessive consumption of sugar and fats, moderate exercise and living part of our daily lives in open air and outdoors-- remedies recommended by food and health specialists for the past several decades. He provides a justification for these recommendations in humankind's evolutionary past. I wish he had found a way of being a little less repetitive.

it looks like cheep photo copy of the original book.pages look really cheep.its not original.