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

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ISBN: 9780195183467 | 0195183460
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Copyright: 10/26/2006

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Diet is key to understanding the ecology and evolution of our distant ancestors and thier kin, the early hominins. An appreciation of the range of foods eaten by our progenitorsalso underscores just how unhealthy many of our diets are today.

Contributors

xiii

I. Introduction

1 Early Hominin Diets: Overview and Historical Perspectives

(8)

Alan Walker

2 Whose Diet? An Introduction to the Hominin Fossil Record

(20)

Amanda G. Henry and Bernard Wood

II. The Hominin Fossil Record

3 The Evolution of the Hominin Diet from a Dental Functional Perspective

(8)

Peter W. Lucas

4 Dental Functional Morphology: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

(17)

Peter S. Ungar

5 What Do We Know and Not Know about Diet and Enamel Structure?

(21)

Mark F. Teaford

6 Mandibular Biomechanics and the Paleontological Evidence for the Evolution of Human Diet

(29)

David J. Daegling and Frederick E. Grine

7 What Do We Know and Not Know about Dental Microwear and Diet?

106

(26)

Mark E Teaford

8 Icarus, Isotopes, and Australopith Diets

132

(18)

Matt Sponheimer, Julia Lee-Thorp, and Darryl de Ruiter

9 Reconstructing Early Hominin Diets: Evaluating Tooth Chemistry and Macronutrient Composition

150

Margaret J. Schoeninger

III. The Archaeological Record

10 Zooarchaeology and the Ecology of Oldowan Hominin Carnivory

167

(24)

Robert J. Blumenschine and Briana L. Pobiner

11 Meat Made Us Human

191

(21)

Henry T. Bunn

12 Lithic Archaeology, or, What Stone Tools Can (and Can't) Tell Us about Early Hominin Diets

212

(21)

John J. Shea

IV. Paleoecology and Modeling

13 Theoretical and Actualistic Ecobotanical Perspectives on Early Hominin Diets and Paleoecology

233

(29)

Charles R. Peters

14 African Pliocene Paleoecology: Hominin Habitats, Resources, and Diets

262

(27)

Kaye E. Reed and Amy L. Rector

15 Modeling the Significance of Paleoenvironmental Context for Early Hominin Diets

289

(19)

Jeanne Sept

16 The Cooking Enigma

308

(16)

Richard Wrangham

17 Seasonality. Fallback Strategies, and Natural Selection: A Chimpanzee and Cercopithecoid Model for Interpreting the Evolution of Hominin Diet

324

(20)

Joanna E. Lambert

18 Energetic Models of Human Nutritional Evolution

344

(19)

William R. Leonard, Marcia L. Robertson, and J. Josh Snodgrass

V. Implications of Studies of Early Hominin Diets

19 Implications of Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Diets for Modern Humans

363

(21)

Loren Cordain

20 Preagricultural Diets and Evolutionary Health Promotion

384

(11)

S. Boyd Eaton

21 Limits to Knowledge on the Evolution of Hominin Diet

395

(14)

Peter S. Ungar

Index

409

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

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