Evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk's new book is Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live.
From her Q & A with Alison George for New Scientist, reprinted in Slate:
What is driving the tendency to idealize the way ancient humans lived?
There is this caricature that organisms evolve until they get to a point when they're perfectly adapted to their environment,
Monday, 8 April 2013
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment