Human Diet (eBook, PDF)

Its Origin and Evolution
Redaktion: Ungar, Peter S.; Teaford, Mark F.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313011399
• Artikelnr.: 68528006

Autorenporträt

PETER S. UNGAR is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas. MARK F. TEAFORD is Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology and Anatomy, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Perspectives on the Evolution of Human Diet by Peter S. Unger and Mark F.
Teaford Evolution, Diet, and Health by S. Boyd Eaton, Stanley B. Eaton III,
and Loren Cordain Post-Pleistocene Human Evolution: Bioarchaeology of the
Agriculture Transition by Clark Spencer Larsen Early Childhood Health in
Foragers by Sara Stinson Meat-Eating, Grandmothering, and the Evolution of
Early Human Diets by 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 by Nancy Lou Conklin-Brittain, Richard W.
Wrangham, and Catherine C. Smith Plants of the Apes I: Is There a Hominoid
Model for the Origins of the Hominoid Diet? by Peter S. Rodman
Hunter-Gatherer Diets: Wild Foods Signal Relief from Diseases of Affluence
by Katharine Milton Hominid Dietary Niches from Proxy Chemical Indicators
in Fossils: The Swartkrans Example by Julia Lee-Thorp Paleontological
Evidence for the Diets of African Plio-Pleistocene Hominids with Special
Reference to Early Homo by Mark F. Teaford, Peter S. Ungar, and Frederick
E. Grine Bibliography Index