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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes and what we can do about it.
We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, loneliness and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respond?
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 many 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.
In this book, Heying and Weinstein draw on decades of their work teaching in college classrooms and exploring earth's most biodiverse ecosystems to confront today's pressing social ills from widespread sleep deprivation and dangerous diets to damaging parenting styles and backward education practices. A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century outlines science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life.
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- Alex
- 03-11-2021
Absolutely brilliant
Highly, highly recommend this book. It's filled with the perfect mix of ancient wisdom and modern analytical methods to diagnose and describe the major issues facing us today. Pragmatic and smart, it tells narratives we can all relate to and need to hear.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-03-2022
excelente!! such a great perspective
i highly enjoyed reading this, and found a lot of great tips and advice that resonate with me
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- Anonymous User
- 21-12-2023
Fun and Insightful
Facinating read. Its full of plenty of intelectual tools for the philosophically minded. highly recommend. although if you are wanting something to hold your hand and point you towards the evidence to support the assertions made, you'll have to put in the work yourself. the truth is out there.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-11-2021
Exceptional
A wonderfully mind-opening book. Thank you for informing me on so much I knew so little about
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- Kindle Customer
- 15-03-2022
very good read
this book really makes you think. it does not over complicate the concepts it discusses.
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- Sarah Hinde
- 28-03-2022
Beyond food for thought!
This book answered so many questions but left me with many, many more! absolutely food for thought! I want more! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion to open the minds of others!
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- Anonymous User
- 01-12-2022
Highly recommended
An exceptionally informative, inspiring and awe-striking book! I absolutely loved it and didn’t want it to end.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-10-2021
Fantastic read!
Great listening, two people far smarter than I breaking down some amazing concepts about the origin of human culture and the fragility of life when faced with over abundance of rapid change. One that will stick with me for a while 👌🏼
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- Anonymous User
- 23-11-2021
Absolutely loved every second.
So wonderfully constructed. Bret and Heather are an absolute breath of fresh air, in the crazy world we live it. Thank you.
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- Clyde
- 22-11-2021
Earned its name.
I was suspicious initially, concerned over the authors motivations in light of their recent messaging blunders, but ultimately relieved and inspired by this work. It was insightful, clear sighted and genuinely lives up to its title as A Hunter Gatherers Guide To The 21st Century.
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