Table of contents : CONTENTS Chapter 1 The Invisible Hand Chapter 2 What Is Metabolism Anyway? Chapter 3 What Is This Going to Cost Me? Chapter 4 How Humans Evolved to Be the Nicest, Fittest, and Fattest Apes Chapter 5 The Metabolic Magician: Energy Compensation and Constraint Chapter 6 The Real Hunger Games: Diet, Metabolism, and Human EvolutionChapter 7 Run for Your Life! Chapter 8 Energetics at the Extreme: The Limits of Human Endurance Chapter 9 The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Homo energeticus Acknowledgments Notes Index