Daniel E. Lieberman Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to do Is Healthy and Rewarding

摘要

Soon, German dog-owners will be legally required to walk their dogs for a total of at least an hour each day. The most pampered Pomeranian, though it has grown used to couches and carpets, must now be allowed to answer the call of the wild by moving its little body through the park. The new Hundeverordnung (‘Dog Act’) recognizes that not only every hound but even a skinny, shaking Chihuahua contains, somewhere deep inside, an ancestral wolf.