{"product_id":"a-huntergatherers-guide-to-the-21st-century-isbn-9780593086889","title":"A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eA provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes—and what we can do about it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eWe are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, lone­liness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respond?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our troubles is clear: the accelerat­ing rate of change in the modern world has outstripped the capacity of our brains and bodies to adapt. We evolved to live in clans, but today many people don’t even know their neighbors’ names. In our haste to discard outdated gender roles, we increasingly deny the flesh-and-blood realities of sex—and its ancient roots. The cognitive dissonance spawned by trying to live in a society we are not built for is killing us.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In this book, Heying and Weinstein draw on decades of their work teaching in college classrooms and explor­ing Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystems to confront today’s pressing social ills—from widespread sleep deprivation and dangerous diets to damaging parenting styles and back­ward education practices. Asking the questions many mod­ern people are afraid to ask, \u003ci\u003eA Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century \u003c\/i\u003eoutlines a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life.“Husband and wife team Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein bring their vast knowledge of evolutionary biology to bear on the problems that beset us. Wide-ranging and illuminating, \u003ci\u003eA Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century \u003c\/i\u003eposits an intriguing, surprising, and profound view of human nature.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—DR. JORDAN B. PETERSON, author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Order\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e12 Rules for Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMaps of Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eA Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century \u003c\/i\u003eis the human story retold in beautiful language and moving metaphors. Heying and Weinstein are professorial in the best possible sense: they exemplify the intellectual humility, nuanced thinking, and love of learning that a great liberal arts education should nurture. Everyone who is raising or educating kids, or who wants to change social systems, should first read this book.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—JONATHAN HAIDT, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Coddling of the American Mind \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eThe Righteous Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “I have never read such a bold, well-researched, and succinct exploration of the puzzling predica­ment we find ourselves in. Anyone who wonders why the most comfortable society in history—our own—has such astronomical rates of depression, anxiety, and poor health will find abundant answers in \u003ci\u003eA Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—SEBASTIAN JUNGER, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTribe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFreedom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein are the brilliant, irresistible professors every student dreams of having. In their hands, complex technical ideas become accessible—and exhilarating. \u003ci\u003eA Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century \u003c\/i\u003eis based on serious science, but it reads like an adventure story.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS, philosopher, author, and host of \u003ci\u003eThe Factual Feminist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eA Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century \u003c\/i\u003ehas given me at least five evolutionary concepts that have become central to my way of viewing the world.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—JAMIE WHEAL, executive director of the Flow Genome Project\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand coauthor of \u003ci\u003eStealing Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Bret and Heather are highly regarded evolutionary biologists, very clear thinkers and communica­tors, and as attested to by their notoriety from the madness that their school put them through, they value scientific truth over political correctness.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—ROBERT SAPOLSKY, author of \u003ci\u003eBehave \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Primate’s Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeather Heying and Bret Weinstein\u003c\/b\u003e are evolutionary biologists who have been invited to ad­dress the US Congress, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Education, and have spoken before audi­ences across the globe. They both earned PhDs in Biology from the University of Michigan, where their research on evolution and adaptation earned awards for its quality and innovation. They have been visiting fellows at Princeton University, and before that were professors at the Ever­green State College for fifteen years. They resigned from Evergreen in the wake of 2017 campus riots that focused in part on their opposition to a day of racial segregation and other college “equity” proposals. They cohost weekly livestreams of the DarkHorse podcast.","brand":"Portfolio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302638866661,"sku":"NP9780593086889","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593086889.jpg?v=1767720546","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-huntergatherers-guide-to-the-21st-century-isbn-9780593086889","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}