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Human diet : its origin and evolution /

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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ungar, Peter S., Teaford, Mark Franklyn, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.