Remember when life was simpler, and diets weren’t full of processed food and chemicals? No, not the 1950s.

nostalgia for a much earlier epoch: the Pleistocene

movies like “10,000 B.C.” are popular because they appeal to our sense that life used to be more in sync with the environment

Maybe our woes arise because our Stone Age genes are thrust into Space Age life.

we have what the anthropologist Leslie Aiello called “paleofantasies.”

not all evolutionary ideas are created equal

The notion that there was a time of perfect adaptation, from which we’ve now deviated, is a caricature of the way evolution works

when exactly was this age of harmony, and what was it like?

we know little about the details of early family structure

Which of our human ancestors are we using as models?

Why not long to be aquatic

it might be nice to be unicellular

Single cells don’t get cancer

We have never been a seamless match with the environment