Theories about how our ancestors lived
- & why we should emulate them
- are often based on pseudoscience & speculation rather than actual research. Taking us to the cutting edge of biology she explains that evolution can work faster than was previously realised meaning that we are not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors. Zuk shows how our visions of an ideal evolutionary past in which we ate lived & reproduced as we were meant to" can lead us astray & distract us from more interesting considerations of how we differ from our forebears. Along the way she debunks the caveman diet discusses whether we're really designed to run barefoot & considers modern-day courtship & child-rearing practices in the context of how our ancestors lived."