When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World

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Stress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of modern world problems and every one of them is an echo of our evolutionary past.

In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Professor Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biology and the modern world we have created. 

Whether it's the derailing of microbes in our gut, the rise of gluten and lactose intolerance, the problems of social media, the curse of fake news, the scourge of violence or the horrors of drug addiction we always seem to have one foot in the modern world and the other firmly in our past.

In conversation with broadcaster, comedian and science communicator Emer Maguire.