Josh Berson is a social scientist and artist with a background in computer science, linguistics, history, anthropology, and design. From 2014 to 2016 Josh led the computational social science strand of Hubbub, a Wellcome-funded research initiative with a mandate to explore emerging practices surrounding rest and busyness.

His 2015 book “Computable Bodies” was the first book-length investigation of the increasingly widespread strategies of self-experimentation identified with movements such as the Quantified Self, polyphasic sleeping, and Paleolithic nutrition. His following book “Meat: From Human Origins to the Crisis of Capitalism” looks at human meat-eating in its entirety with an eye toward making sense of one of the signal environmental and political challenges of the coming generation.

In his latest book, "The Human Scaffold," Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional sense was virtually absent. Far from representing anomalies, these cases exemplify an enduring feature of human behavior that has implications for our own fate.

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