Transform your daily habits to slow biological aging and maximize your healthspan without extreme biohacking diets. Perfect for an energizing morning commute or brisk walk, this empowering guide translates complex longevity science into highly practical, everyday steps. Reclaim your physical vitality by closing the gap between your chronological age and your cellular health.You do not need punishing discipline to stay strong, sharp, and fully engaged with life as the years pass. By...

Transform your daily habits to slow biological aging and maximize your healthspan without extreme biohacking diets. Perfect for an energizing morning commute or brisk walk, this empowering guide translates complex longevity science into highly practical, everyday steps. Reclaim your physical vitality by closing the gap between your chronological age and your cellular health.You do not need punishing discipline to stay strong, sharp, and fully engaged with life as the years pass. By...

Transform your daily habits to slow biological aging and maximize your healthspan without extreme biohacking diets. Perfect for an energizing morning commute or brisk walk, this empowering guide translates complex longevity science into highly practical, everyday steps. Reclaim your physical vitality by closing the gap between your chronological age and your cellular health.You do not need punishing discipline to stay strong, sharp, and fully engaged with life as the years pass. By...

Transform your daily habits to slow biological aging and maximize your healthspan without extreme biohacking diets. Perfect for an energizing morning commute or brisk walk, this empowering guide translates complex longevity science into highly practical, everyday steps. Reclaim your physical vitality by closing the gap between your chronological age and your cellular health.You do not need punishing discipline to stay strong, sharp, and fully engaged with life as the years pass. By...

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America.This new second edition of the b...

What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins—the study of evolution—and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations. In the process, he situates human evolution within a general anthropological framework and presents it as a special case of kinship and mythology.Tales of the Ex-Apes argues that human evolution has incorporat...

The evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming. But the facts are never “just” facts. Human evolution has always been a value-laden scientific theory and, as anthropology makes clear, the ancestors are always sacred. They may be ghosts, or corpses, or fossils, or a naked couple in a garden, but the idea that you are part of a lineage is a powerful and universal one. Meaning and morals are at play, which most certainly transcend science and its quest for m...

No two people are the same, and no two groups of people are the same. But what kinds of differences are there, and what do they mean? What does our DNA say about race, gender, equality, or ancestry? Drawing on the latest discoveries in anthropology and human genetics, Understanding Human Diversity looks at scientific realities and pseudoscientific myths about the patterns of diversity in our species, challenging common misconceptions about genetics, race, and evolution and their role in sh...

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic ...

Research on abnormal human hemoglobins (protein in blood that carries oxygen), has taught us about the inheritance, biochemistry, and distribution of these traits. This knowledge, coupled with mathematical research using computer models of population genetics, has enabled researchers to marry biological fact and genetic theory. This volume places medical understanding in an evolutionary framework. Using published data on the frequencies of abnormal hemoglobins in the world's populations, L...

A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal educationNot so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn them down. In Let's Be Reasonable, conservative political theorist and professor Jonathan Marks finds in liberal education an antidote to this despair, arguing that the true purpose of college is to encourage people ...

Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies—with a stereotypical humanist answering in the affirmative and a stereotypical scientist answering in the negative.The study of human biology is different from the study of the biology of other species. In the simplest terms, people's lives and welfare may depend upon it, in a sense that they may not depend on the study of other s...