'A gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will.' The Mail on Sunday Stress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of modern world problems and every one of them is an echo of our evolutionary past. In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biology and the modern world we have created. In each chapter Adam reveals the many ways in which biological adaptations that evolved to help us survive and thrive now work against us. For example, in the modern world stress is a killer but how did 'fight or flight' instincts turn from life-savers to life-takers? Obesity is a disease now but is it also just a side-effect of our evolutionary past? Whether it's the derailing of microbes in our gut, the rise of gluten and lactose intolerance, problems of social media or drug addiction, we always seem to have one foot in the modern world and the other firmly in our evolutionary past. Adam explores science, archaeology, medicine, genetics, sociology and more, to show how, in a modern world of our own making, we find ourselves 'unfit for purpose'. But all is not lost! In unpicking the causes of our current woes, he unearths some secrets of evolutionarily informed treatments that will change the way we think about ourselves and our future.

'Essential reading for anyone who can look the disasters of the modern world in the face and still laugh...' Having dipped his metaphorical toe in the murky waters of modern education, Sear has somehow survived to live another day, only to discover that he is now being remorselessly hounded by the Department of Works and Pensions and HMRC for work that he has never done, and for an alleged employer in the public sector some three hundred miles away, who has never even heard of - let alone employed - him! The absurdity of life in twenty-first century Britain once again unfolds with all the insane logic that is now so familiar to Sear, and against which he can but rail impotently, with great humour, and ultimately with a belly laugh of despair... Another delightful romp through a jealously guarded world of legal ineptitude and incompetence... or a deeply Kafkaesque and disturbing exposE of one of the most worrying aspects of the British legal system? **The eBook is available in the AuthorHouse Bookstore. http: //bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-001062668/Unfit--for--Purpose.aspx

Introduction -- Human nature and common-sense morality -- Liberal democracy -- Catastrophic misuses of science -- Responsibility for omissions -- the Tragedy of the commons -- the Tragedy of the environment and liberal democracy -- Authoritarianism and democracy -- Moral enhancement as a possible way out.

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