Download or read book Ancestral Roots written by Timothy Clack and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human evolution explains how we have found ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Issues of modern living; depression, obesity, and environmental destruction, can be understood in relation to our evolutionary past. This book shows how an awareness of this past and its relation to the present can help limit their impact on the future.