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Food processors, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, and clothes-washing machines have substancially lessened the physical activity required to cook and clean. Air conditioners and central heating have decreased how much energy our bodies spend to maintain a stable body temperature. Countless other devices, such as electric can openers, remote controls, electric razors and suitcases on wheels, have reduced, calorie by calorie, the amount of energy we expend to exist.
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― The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
― The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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In short, the Industrial Revolution was actually a combination of technological, economical, scientific and social transformations that rapidly and radically altered the course of history and reconfigured the face of the planet in less than ten generations -a true blink of an eye by the standards of evolutionary time.
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― The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
― The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
