Scientific books

I enjoy reading popular science and I find it gives a good background to health and fitness.  I often find myself thinking how the Paleo Diet in particular is impacted on by our genetic heritage but it has ramifications for our understanding of lifestyle and stress too.

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Catching Fire, by Richard Wrangham, is a radical new theory of the evolution of homo sapiens, that explains how we used fire to change our development by cooking

The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, by Elaine Morgan is a startling new hypothesis about the nature of human evolution that explains why we are the Naked Ape and many other unsolved mysteries

The Link, by Colin Tudge, is about Ida, or Darwinius masillae, the small, lemur-like creature that may or may not be one of our ancient ancestors

Big Brain, by Gary Lynch, is a fascinating look at the possibility that humans may not have been the most intelligent ape to walk the earth

The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris, is perhaps the most important work in all of human biology and evolutionary studies and very few people talk about it.  It looks at the human animal from a zoologist’s perspective, as if we were a new species just discovered.  He comes to some startling conclusions

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