CONTENTS

Chapter 1

The Invisible Hand

Chapter 2

What Is Metabolism Anyway?

Chapter 3

What Is This Going to Cost Me?

Chapter 4

How Humans Evolved to Be the Nicest, Fittest, and Fattest Apes

Chapter 5

The Metabolic Magician: Energy Compensation and Constraint

Chapter 6

The Real Hunger Games: Diet, Metabolism, and Human Evolution

Chapter 7

Run for Your Life!

Chapter 8

Energetics at the Extreme: The Limits of Human Endurance

Chapter 9

The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Homo energeticus

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index