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A review by book_hoarding_dragon
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk
5.0
The Paleodiet is one of the many "fad diets." The diet is based on the assumption that we have evolved to be active and eat the foods we were eating about +10,000 years ago and we are not suited, biologically, as an agricultural society. Thus, the way we are living now is causing detrimental harm to our bodies. The way to do so is to eat lots and lots of meat, no grain, no milk, no tomatoes, etc.
Paleofantasy draws from blogs, forums, and articles discussing the Paleodiet and uses archaeological, genetic, paleoanthropoligical evidence to debunk the misconceptions that is involved in the Paleodiet. Furthermore, Zuk addresses misconceptions about evolution.
Personally, I really enjoyed this book. I had to have this book for Advanced Biological Anthropology: Human Origins and this one is a keeper in my mind.
Paleofantasy draws from blogs, forums, and articles discussing the Paleodiet and uses archaeological, genetic, paleoanthropoligical evidence to debunk the misconceptions that is involved in the Paleodiet. Furthermore, Zuk addresses misconceptions about evolution.
Personally, I really enjoyed this book. I had to have this book for Advanced Biological Anthropology: Human Origins and this one is a keeper in my mind.