In The Wild Life of Our Bodies, biologist Rob Dunn argues that our modern separation from other species causes more harm than good
THERE has been no shortage of nostalgia for the “good old days” of human prehistory, when our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived in ecological harmony with nature, roaming savannahs instead of cramped in office chairs. In The Wild Life of Our Bodies, Rob Dunn shares the view of modern human life as a paradise lost, but the loss he laments is not merely of a vague sense of being one with nature. What we have sacrificed, he argues,…
