Daniel E. Lieberman at the Harvard Science Center

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Free In-Person Lecture Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, the Harvard Library, the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, and the Peabody Museum at Harvard welcome Daniel E. Lieberman—paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences and former chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology—for a discussion of his new book, Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals About Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well. Ticketing RSVP for free to this event or choose the “Book-Included” ticket to reserve a copy of Fed Up and pick it up at the event. Following the presentation will be a book signing. Note: Books bundled with tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand. Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their book at Harvard Book Store up to 30 days following the event. This offer expires after 30 days. Please note we cannot guarantee signed copies will be available to ticket holders who do not attend the event. Presented by the Harvard Bookstore, the Harvard University Division of Science, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. About Fed Up A brilliant, no-nonsense look at two questions we never evolved to ask but now must consider several times a day: what should we eat, and why? Daniel E. Lieberman—bestselling author of The Story of the Human Body and Exercised, and founding chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University—cuts through all the confusing and contradictory advice on diet and wellness to ar­gue that there can be no simple, definitive answer. Drawing from evolutionary biol­ogy, physiology, anthropology, anatomy, medical science, and history, Lieberman examines, with brio and wit, the history and health effects of food from before the invention of…

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