Primate Change How the world we made is remaking us

In the last two hundred years, humans have made such a tremendous impact on the world that our geological epoch is about to be declared the 'Anthropocene', or the Age of Man. But while we have been busy changing the shape of the world, the ways of living that we have been fashioning have, as if under the cover of darkness, been changing our bodies and altering our DNA, too. We overindulge in the wrong diets; we are over-stimulated by technology; our lifestyles have become ever more sedentary; we are in a chronic cycle of stress... It explains why: more than 150 million people in the US have flat feet there are billions more chairs on the planet than there are humans we have grown 5 inches in the past 200 years 70% of Americans are on prescription drugs, the pills popped each year, laid end-to-end could orbit the planet twice our feet have grown by two sizes over the past 4 decades our diet has changed the shape of our faces, giving us slacker jawlines, wonky teeth, fleshy jowls by the time you've finished reading this proposal, two people will have died of poor air quality Primate Change offers up a wide-ranging, intelligent look at: how and why the human body has changed since the agricultural revolution, how the way we live now is altering us inside and out and what things we can do to turn back the clock a little.