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"Evolutionary mismatch" as a book category covers works that explain how traits shaped by natural selection for ancestral environments now interact poorly with modern lifestyles, producing physical, psychological, and social problems. These books draw on evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, and medicine to explore topics such as diet and metabolic disease, mental health and stress, addiction and reward systems, sleep, social organization, and technology’s effects on behavior. They range from popular-science overviews and investigative narratives to applied self-help, public-health criticism, and policy proposals, and they often combine empirical research with historical and cross-cultural comparisons. Readers can expect explanations of the adaptive origins of human instincts, clear accounts of how rapid cultural change outpaces biological evolution, and discussion of individual and societal strategies for mitigating mismatch.

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