Diet is key to understanding the ecology and evolution of our distant ancestors and their kin, the early hominians. This work offers an appreciation of the range of foods eaten by our progenitors.
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"This excellent survey of current knowledge in a burgeoning field will be potentially useful as the basis for seminars as well as basic research work. Recommended"--CHOICE
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Peter S. Ungar is a Professor of Anthropology at University of Arkansas.
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Peter S. Ungar (born 1963) is an American paleoanthropologist and evolutionary biologist. He is Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. Before arriving at Arkansas he taught at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Duke University Medical Center.
Ungar is known primarily for his work on the role of diet in human evolution. He has spent thousands of hours observing wild apes and other primates in the rain forests of Latin America and Southeast Asia, studied fossils from tyrannosaurids to Neandertals, and has developed new techniques for using advanced surface analysis technologies to tease information about diet from tooth shape and patterns of use wear.
Ungar has written or coauthored more than 100 scientific papers on ecology and evolution for books and journals including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These have focused on food choices and feeding in living primates, and the role of diet in the evolution of human ancestors and other fossil species. His most recent book, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution and Diversity was published in 2010, and he edited Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable and coedited Human Diet: Its Origins and Evolution.
Ungar's work has been featured in hundreds of electronic, print, and broadcast media outlets, and he appeared recently in documentaries on the Discovery Channel, BBC Television, and the Science Channel.
Ungar is known primarily for his work on the role of diet in human evolution. He has spent thousands of hours observing wild apes and other primates in the rain forests of Latin America and Southeast Asia, studied fossils from tyrannosaurids to Neandertals, and has developed new techniques for using advanced surface analysis technologies to tease information about diet from tooth shape and patterns of use wear.
Ungar has written or coauthored more than 100 scientific papers on ecology and evolution for books and journals including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These have focused on food choices and feeding in living primates, and the role of diet in the evolution of human ancestors and other fossil species. His most recent book, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution and Diversity was published in 2010, and he edited Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable and coedited Human Diet: Its Origins and Evolution.
Ungar's work has been featured in hundreds of electronic, print, and broadcast media outlets, and he appeared recently in documentaries on the Discovery Channel, BBC Television, and the Science Channel.
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I bought this book because I am interested in the proper diet for humans at our stage of evolution, but really didn't learn much in that regard. While it is clear we didn't evolve eating grains, and our ancestors consumed less omega-6 fatty acids and more omega 3's, what is not clear to me is the evolutionary effects of fructose, saturated fats, and cooked proteins. If that is because science doesn't yet know, that would explain the vagueness of the conclusions in that regard, but it also diminishes the value of the book. Also, while the essays near the end of the book addressed the difference between past human diets and today's, they sometimes lumped all animal proteins and all animal fats together, without distinguishing between today's typical grain-fed birds and animals and those raised on organic pasture land. Overall, I found the book somewhat interesting, but not particularly helpful.If you are interested in knowing more about our ancestor's diets, and how we have evolved over the last 100,000 years, but you already know our ancestors' diets consisted of more omega-3 fatty acids and virtually no grains, this book may be of limited value to you.
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behavioural diversity, species concepts, dental functional morphology, dental anthropology, omnivorous primates, early hominin diets, hominin subsistence, larger carnivore guild, cooking enigma, hominin access, transitional hominins, digestive retention times, dental microwear analyses, dental microwear features, handaxe design, hominin habitats, molar enamel thickness, hominin fossil record, dental topographic analysis, early hominins, postmortem wear, hominin taxon, tooth chemistry, enamel properties, limb epiphyses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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behavioural diversity, species concepts, dental functional morphology, dental anthropology, omnivorous primates, early hominin diets, hominin subsistence, larger carnivore guild, cooking enigma, hominin access, transitional hominins, digestive retention times, dental microwear analyses, dental microwear features, handaxe design, hominin habitats, molar enamel thickness, hominin fossil record, dental topographic analysis, early hominins, postmortem wear, hominin taxon, tooth chemistry, enamel properties, limb epiphyses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Early Paleolithic, Olduvai Gorge, South Africa, East Africa, Blurton Jones, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, Academic Press, Oral Biol, Koobi Fora, Allia Bay, Plenum Press, Aldine de Gruyter, Middle Paleolithic, Human Origins, Developed Oldowan, New Haven, Yale University Press, Cure Anthropol, United States, Folia Primatol, Costa Rica, Columbia University Press Browse Sample Pages:
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