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Title Human diet : its origin and evolution / edited by Peter S. Ungar and Mark F. Teaford.

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Bergin and Garvey, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-200) and index.
Contents Perspectives on the evolution of human diet / Peter S. Ungar and Mark F. Teaford -- Evolution, diet, and health / S. Boyd Eaton, Stanley B. Eaton III, and Loren Cordain -- Post-Pleistocene human evolution: bioarcheology of the agricultural transition / Clark Spencer Larsen -- Early childhood health in foragers / Sara Stinson -- Meat-eating, grandmothering, and the evolution of early human diets / James O'Connell, Kristen Hawkes, and Nicholas Blurton Jones -- A two-stage model of increased dietary quality in early hominid evolution: the role of fiber / Nancy Lou Conklin-Brittain, Richard W. Wrangham, and Catherine C. Smith -- Plants of the apes: is there a hominoid model for the origins of the hominid diet? / Peter S. Rodman -- Hunter-gatherer diets: wild foods signal relief from diseases of affluence / Katharine Milton -- Hominid dietary niches from proxy chemical indicators in fossils: the Swartkrans example / Julia Lee-Thorp -- Paleontological evidence for the diets of African Plio-Pleistocene hominins with special reference to early Homo / Mark F. Teaford, Peter S. Ungar, and Frederick E. Grine.
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Summary Diet is key to understanding the past, present, and future of our species. Much of human evolutionary success can be attributed to our ability to consume a wide range of foods. On the other hand, recent changes in the types of foods we eat may lie at the root of many of the health problems we face today. To deal with these problems, we must understand the evolution of the human diet. Studies of traditional peoples, non-human primates, human fossil and archaeological remains, nutritional chemistry, and evolutionary medicine, to name just a few, all contribute to our understanding of the evolution of the human diet. Still, as analyses become more specialized, researchers become more narrowly focused and isolated. This volume attempts to bring together authors schooled in a variety of academic disciplines so that we might begin to build a more cohesive view of the evolution of the human diet. The book demonstrates how past diets are reconstructed using both direct analogies with living traditional peoples and non-human primates, and studies of the bones and teeth of fossils.; An understanding of our ancestral diets reveals how health relates to nutrition, and conclusions can be drawn as to how we may alter our current diets to further our health.
Subject Prehistoric peoples -- Food.
Hunting, Prehistoric.
Agriculture, Prehistoric.
Hunting and gathering societies.
Diet -- History.
Archaeology -- methods.
Diet -- history.
Feeding Behavior.
Feeding Behavior.
Hominidae.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Agriculture, Prehistoric. (OCoLC)fst00801820
Diet. (OCoLC)fst00893284
Hunting and gathering societies. (OCoLC)fst00964206
Hunting, Prehistoric. (OCoLC)fst00964256
Prehistoric peoples -- Food. (OCoLC)fst01075245
Mensch.
Evolution.
Ernährung.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Vor- und Frühgeschichte.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Ungar, Peter S.
Teaford, Mark Franklyn, 1951-
Other Form: Print version: Human diet. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002 0897897366 (DLC) 2001043790 (OCoLC)47995942
ISBN 0313011397 (electronic bk.)
9780313011399 (electronic bk.)
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