Our environments are so sanitized of dreaded biological pathogens that our understimulated immune systems attack our own bodies while in car and home we knowingly inhale a miasma of certified carcinogens against which we have no defense. To fuel this inactivity we devour copious quantities highly processed food, maintaining our metabolisms on ceaseless alert. From cradle to grave we pass our days largely immobile, gazing at screens and wiggling our fingertips. If an evil super-genius plotted to breed a race of obese, feeble, heart-diseased diabetics, he could hardly do better than to re-create the consumer paradise of twenty-first-century America. Daniel Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (New York: Pantheon, 2013), 480 pp.
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