A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

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Heather Heying Bret Weinstein

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein

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SWIFT PRESS
05 January 2022

Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science

We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable than ever. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, and yet our political landscape grows ever more toxic, and rates of suicide, loneliness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these two truths? What's more, what can we do to close it?

For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our woes is clear: the modern world is out of sync with our ancient brains and bodies. We evolved to live in clans, but today most people don't even know their neighbours' names.

Survival in our earliest societies depended on living in harmony with nature, but today the food we eat, the work we do ? even the light we absorb - is radically different from what our minds and bodies evolved to expect. The cognitive dissonance created by trying to live in a society we're not built for is killing us.

In this book, Heying and Weinstein cut through the noise surrounding issues like sex, gender, diet, parenting, sleep, education, and much else besides to outline a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life. They distill more than 20years of research and first-hand accounts from the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth into straightforward principles and guidance for confronting our culture of hyper-novelty.

By: Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
Imprint: SWIFT PRESS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781800750746
ISBN 10: 1800750749
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 05 January 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

HEATHER HEYING and BRET WEINSTEIN are James Madison Program Visiting Fellows at Princeton University. They have PHDs in Biology from the University of Michigan and taught evolutionary biology for 15 years at Evergreen State College, Washington. Together they co-host the Dark Horse podcast, which has over a quarter of a million subscribers and is ranked in the top ten most popular science podcasts on YouTube.

Reviews for A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

This book guides readers through the most pressing puzzles of our time, developing their conceptual toolkit without being didactic. Razor sharp and fun to read, A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century secures Weinstein and Heying's reputation as heroes who stand up not only for academic freedom, but also moral principles. --Jonathan Haidt, coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind and The Righteous Mind Bret and Heather are highly regarded evolutionary biologists, very clear thinkers and communicators. I can't wait to read this book. --Robert Sapolsky, author of Behave and A Primate's Memoir