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“Farming is often viewed as an old-fashioned way of life, but from an evolutionary perspective, it is a recent, unique, and comparatively bizarre way to live.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

“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

“Your guts also have about 100 million nerves, more than the number of nerves in your spinal cord or your entire peripheral nervous system.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

“Our recent divergence from a small population explains another important fact, one that every human ought to know: we are a genetically homogenous species.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease