" In short, an evolutionary perspective explains why the embarrassment of riches many people now enjoy elevates their levels of reproductive hormones, which, along with birth control, then increases the likelihood that cancers will evolve in their breasts, ovaries, uteruses, and prostates. Many reproductive cancers are thus mismatch diseases that are ultimately linked to having lots of energy to spare. As economic development and processed food diets sweep "

― Daniel E. Lieberman , The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease