Sterling Reed, Mimi Pinson, Anja Damazyn
Stem Bio 3°
The Story of the Human Body by Daniel E. Lieberman
ViewPoints/ What is the author arguing?: In this story, the author is talking about how we evolved, where we came from, what characteristics we have and what other animals we are similar to.
Main Ideas/Evidence: The main ideas in The Story of the Human Body are health, disease, evolution, and bipedalism. The novel shows evidence on how we evolved to what we are by discussing generational problems, like disease, and the structure of our body. Another main idea would be how humans have had major changes as they evolved from each different species like how some jaws grew thicker for chewing roots that would normally take a long time to chew.The story goes over hunter-gathering habits and life, the Ice Age and how humans reacted to it, and the Industrial Revolution and its impact on humans and our world. From what we have read, I see that the novel mostly discusses how the world affects humans and vice versa.
Interesting Facts: An Interesting fact would be how our eating behaviors and habits developed and how what we eat now developed. Something I found interesting was that females have evolved to have more vertebrae than males. This is because the added spine helps to carry babies.
Vocab you need to look up: Some vocabulary we don’t know are prescient, titillating, mellifluous, enamel, deemed, progeny,masseter, and gibbonish.
Things you don’t understand or don’t make sense: why did Humans migrate all over, where did chimps first come from
Favorite things so far you learned or read about: The inevitable takeover of our lord and savior Cthulhu. I have accepted our doomed existence and calmly await the flooding of our Earth.
The Story of the Human Body Review
The Story of the Human Body is a novel detailing the evolution of the human body over the million of years it’s been around. It discusses disease and changes to the body, how it affected humans and their environment, and vice versa. This book was written by Daniel E. Lieberman, a Harvard professor. Lieberman uses a lot of academic language throughout the novel, making it somewhat of a hard read. This book was informative and lengthy, but interesting all the same.
The novel had a fantastic way of presenting its collection of data with an elegant structure based upon the evidence of evolution. From Ice Age to the present, the book talks about theories, the ways of natural selection, and the differences between creatures that have evolved using similar DNA but with some minor changes in the gene structures. The Story of the Human Body also talks a lot about bipedalism and how we evolved, how cultural changes changed us physically, how were related to other animals
Though interesting, I wouldn’t recommend this book for the average teen. Unless you’re pursuing evolution, there’s honestly no other reason to read this. The academic language makes this novel somewhat difficult to read for leisure. Hundreds of pages were spent discussing a very specific topic: human studies topics such as different types of fat in each human and bipedalism.
This book would be difficult to comprehend for the layman. It could be considered more as a collection of theories and facts rather than a story. Nonfiction books usually take a level of initial interest for the person reading, and this book is no exception. If you want to learn more about humans and are ready to invest time into it, I definitely recommend this book. This book tells you a lot about evolution and you would learn alot by reading this book. You’ll receive a better understanding of the ideas and facts of evolution and natural selection. Daniel Lieberman has written another book called the The Evolution of the Human Head, which we have not yet read, but look forward to a day when we might. We hope you read this book and enjoy it.
Stem Bio 3°
The Story of the Human Body by Daniel E. Lieberman
ViewPoints/ What is the author arguing?: In this story, the author is talking about how we evolved, where we came from, what characteristics we have and what other animals we are similar to.
Main Ideas/Evidence: The main ideas in The Story of the Human Body are health, disease, evolution, and bipedalism. The novel shows evidence on how we evolved to what we are by discussing generational problems, like disease, and the structure of our body. Another main idea would be how humans have had major changes as they evolved from each different species like how some jaws grew thicker for chewing roots that would normally take a long time to chew.The story goes over hunter-gathering habits and life, the Ice Age and how humans reacted to it, and the Industrial Revolution and its impact on humans and our world. From what we have read, I see that the novel mostly discusses how the world affects humans and vice versa.
Interesting Facts: An Interesting fact would be how our eating behaviors and habits developed and how what we eat now developed. Something I found interesting was that females have evolved to have more vertebrae than males. This is because the added spine helps to carry babies.
Vocab you need to look up: Some vocabulary we don’t know are prescient, titillating, mellifluous, enamel, deemed, progeny,masseter, and gibbonish.
Things you don’t understand or don’t make sense: why did Humans migrate all over, where did chimps first come from
Favorite things so far you learned or read about: The inevitable takeover of our lord and savior Cthulhu. I have accepted our doomed existence and calmly await the flooding of our Earth.
The Story of the Human Body Review
The Story of the Human Body is a novel detailing the evolution of the human body over the million of years it’s been around. It discusses disease and changes to the body, how it affected humans and their environment, and vice versa. This book was written by Daniel E. Lieberman, a Harvard professor. Lieberman uses a lot of academic language throughout the novel, making it somewhat of a hard read. This book was informative and lengthy, but interesting all the same.
The novel had a fantastic way of presenting its collection of data with an elegant structure based upon the evidence of evolution. From Ice Age to the present, the book talks about theories, the ways of natural selection, and the differences between creatures that have evolved using similar DNA but with some minor changes in the gene structures. The Story of the Human Body also talks a lot about bipedalism and how we evolved, how cultural changes changed us physically, how were related to other animals
Though interesting, I wouldn’t recommend this book for the average teen. Unless you’re pursuing evolution, there’s honestly no other reason to read this. The academic language makes this novel somewhat difficult to read for leisure. Hundreds of pages were spent discussing a very specific topic: human studies topics such as different types of fat in each human and bipedalism.
This book would be difficult to comprehend for the layman. It could be considered more as a collection of theories and facts rather than a story. Nonfiction books usually take a level of initial interest for the person reading, and this book is no exception. If you want to learn more about humans and are ready to invest time into it, I definitely recommend this book. This book tells you a lot about evolution and you would learn alot by reading this book. You’ll receive a better understanding of the ideas and facts of evolution and natural selection. Daniel Lieberman has written another book called the The Evolution of the Human Head, which we have not yet read, but look forward to a day when we might. We hope you read this book and enjoy it.