On the Origin of Being: Understanding the Science of Evolution to Enhance Your Quality of Life

by Luke Comer, Jenny Powers, PhD

Overview

For greater well-being, we must adapt our modern lifestyle and live more in harmony with our natural and evolutionary selves.

While giving many benefits, aspects of modern society can also be harmful to our physical, mental, and cultural health. We can overcome many of these detriments if we better understand and express our primal self, which is largely encoded into our DNA.

On the Origin of Being outlines the misalignments between our genetic design and modern lifestyle that reduce our well-being and even cause disease. Jenny Powers, PhD in immunology, and Luke Comer, author and producer, pay homage to Charles Darwin by investigating the evolution of many human behaviors. They identify the origins of these behaviors in the single-cell organisms of billions of years ago and then trace them through primates, hominoids, and up the evolutionary chain to modern humans. They then demonstrate how to realign our behaviors to enjoy more vital, loving, and robust lives here and now.

Book one of this three-part series addresses four behaviors that are most significant to our health: sleep, nutrition, work and rest, and our relationship with nature.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185960103
Publisher:	Greenleaf Book Group, LLC
Publication date:	06/24/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Jenny Powers
Jenny Powers has embodied many incarnations in her life: an athlete, a scientist, a wife, a mom, and a writer. Each one led her closer to discovering her genuine self. Collegiate basketball trained her to push her body beyond physical limits. Earning her PhD in immunology taught her to push her mind past mental barriers and soak in how research works. Becoming a mom caused a tectonic shift in her identity, as she learned what is truly important in life, which included finally pursuing her passion for writing.

Luke Comer
Luke Comer is an independent producer, writer, and director who owns all of his own projects and works in different mediums. He was the author of the novel, Yoke of Wind; the creator and director of the multimedia production, “The Portal,” which toured the country for several years; the producer and director of the Arise Music and Arts Festival that took place in Colorado for ten years; and the originator and conceptualizer for the book, On the Origin of Being. He is currently in production on his next book, Sapient: How to Design the Optimum Meal. In the background, he also works on another series of books called The First Supper, subtitled How Evolution Designed You to Eat. He is also one of the original investors in “Meow Wolf.”