Unfit for Purpose
Unfit for Purpose Forged by natural selection and honed by evolution, humans are perfectly adapted machines. . . In each chapter, Adam explores how many biological adaptations that evolved to help us…
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Unfit for Purpose
Forged by natural selection and honed by evolution, humans are perfectly adapted machines. . . In each chapter, Adam explores how many biological adaptations that evolved to help us survive and thrive in a very different world are now working against us. for a world that no longer exists.In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Professor Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biology and the modern world we have created.
Obesity might be a disease in the modern world, but it's really just a troublesome side-effect of some effective evolutionary brilliance. For example, humans are superbly adapted famine survivors. And in today's society, one of the biggest killers is stress.
What started out as a life-saving fight or flight response in the face of bear attack might now cause headaches, loss of sex drive, depression and heart problems as we