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The Wild Life of Our Bodies电子书

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作       者:Dunn, Rob

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2011-06-01

字       数:47.8万

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A biologist shows the influence of wild species on our well-being and the world and how nature still clings to us and always will.We evolved in a wilderness of parasites, mutualists, and pathogens, but we no longer see ourselves as being part of nature and the broader community of life. In the name of progress and clean living, we scrub much of nature off our bodies and try to remove whole kinds of life parasites, bacteria, mutualists, and predators to allow ourselves to live free of wild danger. Nature, in this new world, is the landscape outside, a kind of living painting that is pleasant to contemplate but nice to have escaped. The truth, though, according to biologist Rob Dunn, is that while "clean living" has benefited us in some ways, it has also made us sicker in others. We are trapped in bodies that evolved to deal with the dependable presence of hundreds of other species. As Dunn reveals, our modern disconnect from the web of life has resulted in unprecedented effects that immunologists, evolutionary biologists, psychologists, and other scientists are only beginning to understand. Diabetes, autism, allergies, many anxiety disorders, autoimmune diseases, and even tooth, jaw, and vision problems are increasingly plaguing bodies that have been removed from the ecological context in which they existed for millennia. In this eye-opening, thoroughly researched, and well-reasoned book, Dunn considers the crossroads at which we find ourselves. Through the stories of visionaries, Dunn argues that we can create a richer nature, one in which we choose to surround ourselves with species that benefit us, not just those that, despite us, survive.
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Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Who We All Used to Be

1: The Origins of Humans and the Control of Nature

Part II: Why We Sometimes Need Worms and Whether or Not You Should Rewild Your Gut

2: When Good Bodies Go Bad (and Why)

3: The Pronghorn Principle and What Our Guts Flee

4: The Dirty Realities of What to Do When You Are Sick and Missing Your Worms

Part III: What Your Appendix Does and How It Has Changed

5: Several Things the Gut Knows and the Brain Ignores

6: I Need My Appendix (and So Do My Bacteria)

Part IV: How We Tried to Tame Cows (and Crops) but Instead They Tamed Us, and Why It Made Some of Us Fat

7: When Cows and Grass Domesticated Humans

8: So Who Cares If Your Ancestors Sucked Milk from Aurochsen?

Part V: How Predators Left Us Scared, Pathos-ridden, and Covered in Goose Bumps

9: We Were Hunted, Which Is Why All of Us Are Afraid Some of the Time and Some of Us Are Afraid All of the Time

10: From Flight to Fight

11: Vermeij’s Law of Evolutionary Consequences and How Snakes Made the World

12: Choosing Who Lives

Part VI: The Pathogens That Left Us Hairless and Xenophobic

13: How Lice and Ticks (and Their Pathogens) Made Us Naked and Gave Us Skin Cancer

14: How the Pathogens That Made Us Naked Also Made Us Xenophobic, Collectivist, and Disgusted

Part VII: The Future of Human Nature

15: The Reluctant Revolutionary of Hope

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Also by Rob Dunn

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

Footnotes

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