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Daniel E. Lieberman

Born

in Massachusetts, The United States

June 03, 1964

Website

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~skeleton/danlhome.html

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Science, Anthropology, Paleoanthropology

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Daniel E. Lieberman is a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, and chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. He is best known for his research on the evolution of the human head and the evolution of the human body.

Lieberman was educated at Harvard University, where he obtained his A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He also received a M. Phil from Cambridge University. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and taught at Rutgers University and the George Washington University before becoming a professor at Harvard University in 2001. He is on the curatorial board of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, a member of the Department of ...more

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Average rating: 4.22 · 18,984 ratings · 1,952 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding 4.17 avg rating — 10,161 ratings — published 2021 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease 4.26 avg rating — 8,750 ratings — published 2013 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evolution of the Human Head 3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transitions in Prehistory: Essays in honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef (American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph) by John J. Shea (Editor), Daniel E. Lieberman (Editor), Martha Tappen (Contributor) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Accounting for Climate Change: Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories - Verification, Compliance, and Trading by Daniel E. Lieberman (Editor), Zbigniew Nahorski (Editor), Matthias Jonas (Editor) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology by Michael J. O'Brien (Contributor), Briggs Buchanan (Editor), Metin I. Eren (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interpreting The Past: Essays On Human, Primate, And Mammal Evolution In Honor Of David Pilbeam (American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series) by Daniel E. Lieberman (editor), Richard J. Smith (Editor), Jay Kelley (Editor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Peculiar Leaf: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fed Up: A Hungry Person's Guide to the Story and Science of Food and Diets 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We didn’t evolve to be healthy, but instead we were selected to have as many offspring as possible under diverse, challenging conditions. As a consequence, we never evolved to make rational choices about what to eat or how to exercise in conditions of abundance and comfort.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

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“The fundamental answer to why so many humans are now getting sick from previously rare illnesses is that many of the body's features were adapted in environments from which we evolved, but have become maladapted in the modern environments we have now created. This idea, known as the mismatch hypothesis, is the core of the new emerging field of evolutionary medicine, which applies evolutionary biology to health and disease.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

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“Our body’s evolutionary journey is also far from over. Natural selection didn’t stop when farming started but instead has continued and continues to adapt populations to changing diets, germs, and environments. Yet the rate and power of cultural evolution has vastly outpaced the rate and power of natural selection, and the bodies we inherited are still adapted to a significant extent to the various and diverse environmental conditions in which we evolved over millions of years. The end product of all that evolution is that we are big-brained, moderately fat bipeds who reproduce relatively rapidly but take a long time to mature.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

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The Body: A Guide for Occupants de Bill Bryson

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers de Mary Roach

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