Podcast Episodes featuring Marlene Zuk

Marlene Zuk: The Paleo Delusion

Point of Inquiry - June 23, 2014 17:48 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in caves rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than wear sneakers—or did we? These, along with many other questions about what is or is not "natural" for humans from an evolutionary perspective and is the subject of the new book by bi...

Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live” (Norton, 2013)

New Books Network - April 22, 2013 13:28 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
The Hebrews called it “Eden.” The Greeks and Romans called it the “Golden Age.” The philosophes–or Rousseau at least–called it the “State of Nature.” Marx and Engels called it “Primitive Communism.” The underlying notion, however, is the same: there was a time, long ago, when things were much bet...

Marlene Zuk

Smart People Podcast - March 17, 2013 22:29 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 700 ratings
Marlene Zuk – author of Paleofantasy, professor of ecology Unless you’ve been living in a cave (best….pun….ever), you are probably well aware of the new fad diet, the paleo diet. The quick and dirty of the diet is you can eat anything that was available to our cave dwelling ancestors. So chow dow...