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Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable (Human Evolution Series) by Peter S. Ungar |
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"Many topics of interest to health professionals, such as vegetarianism, dietary fibers, lactose intolerance, favism, cannibalism and changes in nutritional status wrought by the decline of hunter-gathering and the rise of horticulture. Many sections will appeal to the general reader." --Journal of Applied Nutrition "Exceptionally well-edited. High quality individual papers are of comparable scope and are uniformly well referenced and detailed in presentation of supporting data Introductory and concluding chapters as well as section overviews create an integrated whole." --Choice "Compelling...complete and...recommended." --Science Books & Films "Should be of value to all nutrition educators who have an interest in the social, cultural, and international aspects of foods and nutrition." --Journal of Nutrition Education
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The old adage "you are what you eat" may be more accurate than anyone could have ever imagined. This unprecedented interdisciplinary effort by scholars in primatology, biological anthropology, archaeology, nutrition, psychology, agricultural economics, and cultural anthropology suggests that there is a systematic theory behind why humans eat what they eat.
Includes discussions ranging in time from prehistory to the present, and from the most simple societies to the most complex, including South American Indian groups, African hunter-gatherers, and countries such as India, Bangladesh, Peru, and Mexico. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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food taboos, protein metabolism, foraging strategies, population adaptation, nonhuman primates, wild chimpanzees, agricultural involution, omnivorous primates, nutritional evaluation, harmful foodways, atta ruti, human food selection, gut proportions, fava bean consumption, bean avoidance, human foodways, primate legacy, cattle lobby, human food preferences, biocultural consequences, new garden site, bora grounds, subsistence ratios, hunting yields, cattle sector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, United States, Costa Rica, Third World, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, University of Chicago Press, New World, Mexico City, Human Evolution, New Haven, Human Ecology, American Anthropologist, Latin America, Current Anthropology, Central America, Yale University Press, The Hague, Origins of Agriculture, American Ethnologist, Random House, American Anthropological Association, Natural History, Old World Browse Sample Pages:
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