Built on Bones
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Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got
a choice - carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one
of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't
know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new
diseases, your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are,
they'll be plagued with gum disease, and stand a decent chance of a
violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose
this? This is one of the many intriguing questions tackled by
Brenna Hassett in Built on Bones. Using research on skeletal
remains from around the world, this book explores the history of
humanity's experiment with the metropolis, and looks at why our
ancestors chose city life, and why they have largely stuck to it.
It explains the diseases, the deaths and the many other
misadventures that we have unwittingly unleashed upon ourselves
throughout the metropolitan past, and as the world becomes
increasingly urbanised, what we can look forward to in the future.
Telling the tale of shifts in human growth and health that have
occurred as we transitioned from a mobile to a largely settled
species. Built on Bones offers an accessible insight into a
critical but relatively unheralded aspect of the human story: our
recent evolution.
Výber kníh autorov
Bloomsbury Sigma ,
Brenna Hassett
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Bloomsbury Sigma,
Brenna Hassett
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Slovart
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