# Daniel E. Lieberman at the Harvard Science Center ![A headshot of Daniel Lieberman.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4986/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2026-08/10-07%20lieberman%20detail-credit%20Antonia%20Prescott.jpg?itok=_1uAzi0j) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **October 7, 2026** 06:00PM - 07:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Harvard Science Center** [1 Oxford Street Hall D Cambridge, MA 02138 United States ]() [ RSVP Required arrow\_circle\_right ](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/daniel-e-lieberman-at-the-harvard-science-center-tickets-1997183434415?aff=oddtdtcreator) **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 cooking up to today’s industrially produced diets. He shows how we evolved to eat almost anything, and by evalu­ating and trying many of these diets (raw food, Paleo, Mediterranean, Blue Zone, intermittent fasting, Atkins, DASH), he helps you understand why none is flawless though some are better than others. Lieberman explores the costs and benefits of cheap, energy-rich, tempting, and often unhealthy ultra-processed foods; the tangled roots of weight gain; how diet influences obesity, heart disease, and cancer; and the claims of benefits offered by high- and low-fat diets, meal replacements, inter­mittent fasting, carnivorism, vegetarianism, and veganism—while also showing how over centu­ries most cultures evolved ingenious ways to grow and cook healthy, delicious food. This fascinating and entertaining sci­ence-based book on nutrition, digestion, and health will teach you how to be well fed instead of fed up with dietary hucksterism. ### **Praise for** ***Fed Up*** “Wonderful: wise, witty, and full of unexpected insights.”—Bill Bryson, bestselling author of *The Body* “One of the country’s foremost evolutionary biologists gives us a terrific book that cuts through the noise of fad diets and nutrition advice by turning to the most reliable guide we have: the deep history of the human body. A wise, accessible, and evidence-based framework for eating well in a world that has made eating badly all too easy.”—Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of *Salt Sugar Fat* “What is the most ‘natural’ human diet? Like all searches for *the* supposed nature of humans, this question has spawned unsupported dogmatism, crackpot ideology, and fraudulent fads. Renowned Harvard paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman offers fascinating, accessible science concerning human biology and behavior, showing that there is no singular natural diet, where reality is far more interesting. Rare is the book that is this wise and sensible while also being this fun to read.” —Robert M. Sapolsky, *New York Times* bestselling author of *Determined* “We’ve long heard the phrase, ‘We are what we eat,’ but where does our desire to eat originate? In *Fed Up*, acclaimed Harvard evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman examines the evolutionary roots of human eating behavior. Why are we drawn to certain foods? Why do we make the choices we do? And can we exert more control over those instincts for our own health? Insightful and engaging, this book provides a fascinating look at the forces that shape our diets and, ultimately, our healthy longevity. It is a valuable read for anyone seeking to better understand their eating habits and how to improve them.” —Jordan M. Metzl, MD, author of *Push* ### **Bio** **Daniel Lieberman** is the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences at Harvard University and a Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. He is also a member of Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He was educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities. At Harvard, he teaches a variety of courses on human evolution, anatomy, physiology, and health. In addition to more than 200 peer-review articles, his three previous books are: T*he Evolution of the Human Head* (Harvard University Press, 2011), T*he Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease* (Pantheon, 2013), and *Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding* (Pantheon, 2020). *Photo Credit: Antonia Prescott* ## [**Harvard Science Book Talks**](https://www.harvard.com/events/tags/harvard-science-book-talks) The Harvard Science Book Talks series is a collaboration between the Harvard University Division of Science, the Harvard Library, and Harvard Book Store. The series features talks by the authors of recently published books on a variety of science-related topics and is open to both the Harvard community and to the general public. 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