His writing style also makes the book an enjoyable read. Lieberman explains complex subjects in a way that makes it easy for the layperson to understand. This is a fascinating and thought-provoking book. Lieberman explains how an evolutionary perspective in medicine might help us address the causes rather than merely the symptoms of many modern chronic diseases. The lifestyles we modern humans have created for ourselves do not match many of our physiological needs as dictated by human evolution. Societal developments, especially the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions, have created environments to which our bodies are not entirely adapted. His premise is that as human biological evolution has been overshadowed by cultural evolution, humanity has fostered the development of mismatch diseases. His purpose is to explain how our bodies are meant to work and what is needed to keep them healthy. In "The Story of the Human Body", Harvard human evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman traces the history of human evolution. And finally-provocatively-he advocates the use of evolutionary information to help nudge, push, and sometimes even compel us to create a more salubrious environment and pursue better lifestyles. He shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning a paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease. He illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism the shift to a non-fruit-based diet the advent of hunting and gathering and how cultural changes like the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions have impacted us physically. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E.