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Daniel E. Lieberman (born June 3, 1964) is a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. He is best known for his research on the evolution of the human head and the human body. Biography Lieberman was educated at Harvard University, where he got his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He also received a M. Phil from Cambridge University. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and taught at Rutgers University and the George Washington University before becoming a professor at Harvard University in 2001. Director of the Skeletal Biology Laboratory at Harvard, Lieberman is on the curatorial board of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, a member of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, and the Scientific Executive Committee of the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. Honors and awards National Merit Scholar, 1982 Phi Beta Kappa (Harvard College), 1986 Summa cum laude, Harvard College Frank Knox III Memorial Fellowship, 1986–1987 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1987–1990 Junior Fellowship, Harvard Society of Fellows, 1993–1996 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, Harvard University, 2009 Harvard College Professorship, 2010–2015 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020Research Lieberman studies how and why the human body is the way it is, with a primary focus on the evolution of physical activity His research combines paleontology, anatomy, physiology and experimental biomechanics in the lab and in the field. In his career, he initially focused to a large extent on why and how humans have such unusual heads. Since 2004 most of his research has focused on the evolution of human locomotion including whether the first hominins were bipeds, why bipedalism evolved, the biomechanical challenges of pregnancy in females, how locomotion affects skeletal function and, most especially, the evolution of running. His 2004 paper with Dennis Bramble, “Endurance Running and the Evolution of Homo” proposed that humans evolved to run long distances to scavenge and hunt. His research on running in general, especially barefoot running was popularized in Chris McDougall's best-selling book Born to Run. Lieberman is an avid marathon runner, often barefoot, which has earned him the nickname 'The Barefoot Professor'. Bibliography Books The Evolution of the Human Head. Harvard University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780674046368. The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease. Pantheon Press. 2013. ISBN 9780307741806. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding. Pantheon Press. 2021. ISBN 9781524746988.Reviews Condie, Bill (Feb–Mar 2014). "The story of the human body". Coda. Cosmos. Review. 55: 106–107.References External links Harvard Professor: Revealing The 7 Big Lies About Exercise, Sleep, Running, Cancer & Sugar (2023) on YouTube Dr. Daniel Lieberman - Research collection. Discover the Daniel Lieberman popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Daniel Lieberman books.

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    The Story of the Human Body

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    In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Liebermanchair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the fieldgives us a lucid a...

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    Exercised

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