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Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

edited by Peter S. Ungar

This volume brings together authorities from disparate fields to offer new insights into the diets of our ancestors. Paleontologists, archaeologists, primatologists, nutritionists and other researchers all contribute pieces to the puzzle. This volume has at its core four main sections: reconstructed diets based on hominin fossils - tooth size, shape, structure, wear, and chemistry, mandibular biomechanics; archaeological evidence of subsistence - stone tools and modified bones; models of early hominin diets based on the diets of living primates - both human and non-human, paleoecology, and energetics; and, nutritional analyses and their implications for evolutionary medicine. New techniques for gleaning information from fossil teeth, bones, and stone tools, new theories stemming from studies of paleoecology, and new models coming from analogy with modern humans and other primates all contribute to our understanding. When these approaches are brought together, they offer an impressive glimpse into the lives of our distant ancestors. 413p b/w figs (Oxford UP 2007)

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