After five years of obsessively researching evolution and health, after three years of writing, revising, and pouring through academic literature, I have finally completed what I believe is the most important, far-reaching health book to date.
Big words, but I have the facts to back it. Take a look at what this book adds to the discourse:
- I review the foundations of decision-making and structure the rest of the book around them (Science, Logic, and Strategy)
- I demonstrate the relevance of evolution to health by starting with the “formative era” and zooming out beyond the human timeline
- I chart the history of evolutionary interpretation in diet and health; why it’s important, where it is now
- I provide an overview and history of natural movement and its modern alternatives
- I incorporate a feminist perspective into many issues (the rise of civilization, sexual division of labor, body image, courtship, etc.)
- I reinterpret happiness studies through the lens of evolution (some of which has not been done) and build on the only other book that’s been written on evolution and happiness, Bjorn Grinde’s Darwinian Happiness
- I describe virtue and morality as evolved predispositions of behavior that can be leveraged for health benefits
- I marry sociality with sexuality in order to describe dynamics of natural behavior, and I list for the first time specific social bonding strategies (social disconnection, after all, is partly a result of declining knowledge about how to bond with others)
- I outline how to connect to nature in today’s world
- I tie virtue and health into the topic of sustainability to see more clearly how protecting the planet advances our personal health
- and much more!
This book traces the edge of human knowledge, where all good questions are asked. It completes an understanding of modern disease and human well-being. This has been my dream for years, and now we can make it a reality.
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