Notes

Preface

Introduction

What Are Humans Adapted For?

Part I: Apes and Humans

Chapter 2 — Upstanding Apes

How We Became Bipeds

Chapter 3 — Much Depends on Dinner

How the Australopiths Partly Weaned Us Off Fruit

Chapter 4 — The First Hunter-Gatherers

How Nearly Modern Bodies Evolved in the Human Genus

Chapter 5 — Energy in the Ice Age

How We Evolved Big Brains Along with Large, Fat, Gradually Growing Bodies

Chapter 6 — A Very Cultured Species

How Modern Humans Colonized the World with a Combination of Brains plus Brawn

Part II: Farming and the Industrial Revolution

Chapter 7 — Progress, Mismatch, and Dysevolution

The Consequences — Good and Bad — of Having Paleolithic Bodies in a Post-Paleolithic World