Paleofantasy

What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live

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Marlene Zuk: Paleofantasy (2014, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.)

336 pages

English language

Published Feb. 2, 2014 by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W..

ISBN:
978-0-393-34792-0
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Dr. Zuk sets out to explore all of the ways that our preconceptions of the Paleo era may differ from how people really lived. I found the book as a whole pretty shallow -- some theories of paleolithic parenting, diet, etc. were introduced, but mostly it wasn't a very scholarly approach. Yes, it's a pop!sci book, but Dr. Zuk's popular works on entomology were much better.

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Subjects

  • Human evolution
  • Social evolution
  • Hunting and gathering societies
  • Prehistoric peoples