AGAINST THE GRAIN

In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human ev olution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying inc rease in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning bel ieves we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply dee ply attr...[Read more]