A bold provocative history of our species finds the roots of civilization's success and
failure in our evolutionary biology. We are living through the most prosperous age in all of
human history yet people are more listless divided and miserable than ever. Wealth and
comfort are unparalleled and yet our political landscape grows ever more toxic and rates of
suicide loneliness and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap
between these two truths? What's more what can we do to close it? 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 most people
don't even know their neighbors' names. Traditional gender roles once served a necessary
evolutionary purpose but today we dismiss them as regressive. The cognitive dissonance spawned
by trying to live in a society we're not built for is killing us. In this book Heying and
Weinstein cut through the politically fraught discourse surrounding issues like sex gender
diet parenting sleep education and more to outline a provocative science-based worldview
that will empower you to live a better wiser life. They distill more than 20 years of research
and first-hand accounts from the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth into straight forward
principles and guidance for confronting our culture of hyper-novelty.
