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Daniel Lieberman

{{short description|American paleoanthropologist (born 1964)}}

{{Distinguish|Dave Liebman}}

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| name = Daniel Eric Lieberman

| image = Dan Lieberman at Ancestral Health Symposium.jpg

| caption = Lieberman speaks at Ancestral Health Symposium 2012

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|6|3}}

| birth_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

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| field = Biologist, anthropologist

| work_institutions = Rutgers University
George Washington University
Harvard University

| alma_mater = Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD)

| known_for = Human evolution

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Daniel E. Lieberman (born June 3, 1964) is a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. He is best known for his research on the evolution of the human head{{cite book | title=The Evolution of the Human Head | publisher=Harvard University Press | author=Lieberman, Daniel E | year=2011 | location=Cambridge, MA, USA | isbn=9780674046368}} and the human body.{{cite book | title=The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, Disease | url=https://archive.org/details/storyofhumanbody0000lieb | url-access=registration | publisher=Pantheon | author=Lieberman, Daniel E | year=2013 | location=New York, NY, USA | isbn=978-0-307-37941-2}}

Biography

Lieberman was educated at Harvard University, where he received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He also received a M. Phil from Cambridge University.{{cite web|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/dlieberman/files/delcv_june2016.doc|format=DOC|title=CURRICULUM VITAE : Daniel Eric Lieberman|website=Scholar.harvard.edu|access-date=6 June 2022}} He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and taught at Rutgers University and the George Washington University before becoming a professor at Harvard University in 2001.

Director of the Skeletal Biology Laboratory at Harvard, Lieberman is on the curatorial board of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, a member of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, and the Scientific Executive Committee of the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation.

Honors and awards

Research

Lieberman studies how and why the human body is the way it is, with a primary focus on the evolution of physical activity His research combines paleontology, anatomy, physiology and experimental biomechanics in the lab and in the field. In his career, he initially focused to a large extent on why and how humans have such unusual heads. Since 2004 most of his research has focused on the evolution of human locomotion including whether the first hominins were bipeds,{{Cite journal

| last1 = Zollikofer | first1 = C. P. E.

| last2 = Ponce De León | first2 = M. S.

| last3 = Lieberman | first3 = D. E.

| last4 = Guy | first4 = F.

| last5 = Pilbeam | first5 = D.

| last6 = Likius | first6 = A.

| last7 = MacKaye | first7 = H. T.

| last8 = Vignaud | first8 = P.

| last9 = Brunet | first9 = M.

| doi = 10.1038/nature03397

| title = Virtual cranial reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis

| journal = Nature

| volume = 434

| issue = 7034

| pages = 755–759

| year = 2005

| pmid = 15815628

| bibcode = 2005Natur.434..755Z | s2cid = 4362525

| url = http://doc.rero.ch/record/15309/files/PAL_E2608.pdf

}} why bipedalism evolved,{{cite book | chapter=Four legs good, two legs fortuitous: Brains, brawn and the evolution of human bipedalism| last=Lieberman | first=Daniel E. | editor-first=Jonathan B. | year=2011 | editor-last=Losos | title=In the light of evolution: Essays from the laboratory and field | publisher=Roberts and Company Publishers | publication-place=Greenwood Village, Colorado | isbn=978-0-9815194-9-4 | oclc=441208126 | pages=55–71 | chapter-url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/dlieberman/files/2010g.pdf}} the biomechanical challenges of pregnancy in females,{{Cite journal

| last1 = Whitcome | first1 = K. K.

| last2 = Shapiro | first2 = L. J.

| last3 = Lieberman | first3 = D. E.

| title = Fetal load and the evolution of lumbar lordosis in bipedal hominins

| journal = Nature

| volume = 450

| issue = 7172

| pages = 1075–1078

| year = 2007

| pmid = 18075592

| doi = 10.1038/nature06342

| bibcode = 2007Natur.450.1075W | s2cid = 10158

| url = https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3743553/27881641.pdf?sequence=1}} how locomotion affects skeletal function{{Cite journal

| doi = 10.1242/jeb.00514

| last1 = Lieberman | first1 = D. E.

| last2 = Pearson | first2 = O. M.

| last3 = Polk | first3 = J. D.

| last4 = Demes | first4 = B.

| last5 = Crompton | first5 = A. W.

| title = Optimization of bone growth and remodeling in response to loading in tapered mammalian limbs

| journal = The Journal of Experimental Biology

| volume = 206

| issue = Pt 18

| pages = 3125–3138

| year = 2003

| pmid = 12909694

| doi-access = free

}} and, most especially, the evolution of running. His 2004 paper with Dennis Bramble, “Endurance Running and the Evolution of Homo”{{Cite journal

| last1 = Bramble | first1 = D. M.

| last2 = Lieberman | first2 = D. E.

| doi = 10.1038/nature03052

| title = Endurance running and the evolution of Homo

| journal = Nature

| volume = 432

| issue = 7015

| pages = 345–352

| year = 2004

| pmid = 15549097

| bibcode = 2004Natur.432..345B | s2cid = 2470602

| url = http://doc.rero.ch/record/15289/files/PAL_E2588.pdf

}} proposed that humans evolved to run long distances to scavenge and hunt. His research on running in general, especially barefoot running{{Cite journal

| doi = 10.1038/nature08723

| title = Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners

| year = 2010

| last1 = Lieberman | first1 = D. E.

| last2 = Venkadesan | first2 = M.

| last3 = Werbel | first3 = W. A.

| last4 = Daoud | first4 = A. I.

| last5 = d'Andrea | first5 = S.

| last6 = Davis | first6 = I. S.

| last7 = Mang'Eni | first7 = R. O.

| last8 = Pitsiladis | first8 = Y.

| journal = Nature

| volume = 463

| pages = 531–535| pmid = 20111000

| issue = 7280

| bibcode = 2010Natur.463..531L | s2cid = 216420

}}{{Cite journal

| last1 = Lieberman | first1 = D. E.

| title = What We Can Learn About Running from Barefoot Running

| doi = 10.1097/JES.0b013e31824ab210

| journal = Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

| volume = 40

| issue = 2

| pages = 63–72

| year = 2012

| pmid = 22257937

| s2cid = 16480403

| doi-access = free

}} was popularized in Chris McDougall's best-selling book Born to Run.{{cite book | title=Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | publisher=Knopf | author=McDougall, Christopher | year=2009 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/borntorunhiddent00mcdo/page/304 304] | isbn=978-0-307-26630-9 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/borntorunhiddent00mcdo/page/304 }} Lieberman is an avid marathon runner, often barefoot, which has earned him the nickname 'The Barefoot Professor'.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jrnj-7YKZE | title=Barefoot Professor | publisher=Nature | access-date=25 September 2013}}

Bibliography

{{Incomplete list|date=December 2016}}

=Books=

  • {{cite book | display-authors=0 | last=Lieberman | first=Daniel E. | date=3 January 2011 | title=The evolution of the human head | publication-place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | publisher=Belknap Press | isbn=978-0-674-04636-8 | doi=10.2307/j.ctvjnrtmh}}{{cite journal | last=Smith | first=Timothy D. | title=The evolution of the human head by Daniel E. Lieberman | type=Book review | journal=Human Biology | volume=84 | issue=2 | year=2012 | issn=0018-7143 | doi=10.3378/027.084.0206 | pages=215–217}}{{cite journal | last=Gilbert | first=Christopher C. | title=The evolution of the human head by Daniel E. Lieberman | type=Book review | journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology | publisher=University of Chicago Press | volume=87 | issue=3 | year=2012 | issn=0033-5770 | doi=10.1086/666810 | pages=254–255}}{{cite magazine | last=Manjarrez | first=Alejandra | date=2011 | title=Where does your head come from? | type=Book review | magazine=Lab Times | volume=2011 | issue=5 | page=72 | issn=1864-2381 | url=http://labtimes.org/labtimes/issues/lt2011/lt05/lt_2011_05_72_72.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909082534/http://labtimes.org/labtimes/issues/lt2011/lt05/lt_2011_05_72_72.pdf | archive-date=2016-09-09}}{{cite magazine | last=Vieira | first=Scott | date=1 January 2011 | title=The evolution of the human head | type=Book review | magazine=Library Journal | url=https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-evolution-of-the-human-head | access-date=7 November 2024}}
  • {{cite book |display-authors= 0 |last= Lieberman |first= Daniel |title= The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease |publisher= Pantheon Press |year= 2013 |isbn= 9780307741806}}
  • {{cite book |display-authors= 0 |last= Lieberman |first= Daniel |title= Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding |publisher= Pantheon Press |year= 2021 |isbn= 9781524746988}}

=Reviews=

  • {{cite journal |last= Condie |first= Bill |date= Feb–Mar 2014 |title= The story of the human body |department= Coda |journal= Cosmos |volume= 55 |pages= 106–107 |series= Review }}

References

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External links

  • {{YouTube|ujRwf1HdNjk|Harvard Professor: Revealing The 7 Big Lies About Exercise, Sleep, Running, Cancer & Sugar (2023)|link=no}}
  • [https://drdaniellieberman.com/ Dr. Daniel Lieberman - Research collection]

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