The evolutionary science behind why you can’t lose weight and how to avoid 5 modern food mistakes | Prof Daniel Lieberman

Aug 6, 2026 · 53 min

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0:00Welcome to Zoe, Science and Nutrition, where world leading scientists explain how their research can improve your health.
0:13It's 200,000 years BC.
0:16A dry wind sweeps across the ancient African savannah as dawn bleeds red in the horizon.
0:24In the half-light, a small band of humans move silently, bare feet pressing into dust as their eyes scan for movement.
0:33A child clutches a digging stick.
0:36A hunter studies tracks in the earth.
0:39Hunger is no stranger to these people.
0:41It's an ever-present specter.
0:44For more than 99% of our history, food was inseparable from effort, uncertainty and season.
0:52But in an evolutionary blink of an eye, our food landscape has utterly changed.
0:57We are now rarely more than an arm's length away from food.
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