"In The Human Scaffold, Josh Berson offers an original, challenging, and beautiful argument that moves across physical and cultural anthropology, and across continents and time, to reassess the relationship between bodily adaptation, tool use, and survival. He shows us denizens of the twenty-first century that beneath the question of environmental adaptation lies another one, both practical and philosophical: How should we live?"—Ben Wurgaft, author of Meat Planet 

"The Human Scaffold turns you inside out. It shifts the way we see our bodies, how they sense and think, and how climate and landscape may biochemically adapt our inner selves. A book that makes you aware about the behavior of the skins we thought we were inhabiting. It touches your insides in all possible degrees. A hot date with your senses."—Cooking Sections, founders of CLIMAVORE and authors of Salmon: A Red Herring