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Index
Dedication
Introduction
Part I: Who We All Used to Be
1: The Origins of Humans and the Control of Nature
Part II: Why We Sometimes Need Worms and Whether or Not You Should Rewild Your Gut
2: When Good Bodies Go Bad (and Why)
3: The Pronghorn Principle and What Our Guts Flee
4: The Dirty Realities of What to Do When You Are Sick and Missing Your Worms
Part III: What Your Appendix Does and How It Has Changed
5: Several Things the Gut Knows and the Brain Ignores
6: I Need My Appendix (and So Do My Bacteria)
Part IV: How We Tried to Tame Cows (and Crops) but Instead They Tamed Us, and Why It Made Some of Us Fat
7: When Cows and Grass Domesticated Humans
8: So Who Cares If Your Ancestors Sucked Milk from Aurochsen?
Part V: How Predators Left Us Scared, Pathos-ridden, and Covered in Goose Bumps
9: We Were Hunted, Which Is Why All of Us Are Afraid Some of the Time and Some of Us Are Afraid All of the Time
10: From Flight to Fight
11: Vermeij’s Law of Evolutionary Consequences and How Snakes Made the World
12: Choosing Who Lives
Part VI: The Pathogens That Left Us Hairless and Xenophobic
13: How Lice and Ticks (and Their Pathogens) Made Us Naked and Gave Us Skin Cancer
14: How the Pathogens That Made Us Naked Also Made Us Xenophobic, Collectivist, and Disgusted
Part VII: The Future of Human Nature
15: The Reluctant Revolutionary of Hope
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author
Also by Rob Dunn
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
Footnotes
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