Table of Contents:
  • Perspectives on the evolution of human diet / Peter S. Ungar and Mark F. Teaford
  • Evolution, diet, and health / S. Boyd Eaton, Stanley B. Eaton III, and Loren Cordain
  • Post-Pleistocene human evolution: bioarcheology of the agricultural transition / Clark Spencer Larsen
  • Early childhood health in foragers / Sara Stinson
  • Meat-eating, grandmothering, and the evolution of early human diets / 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 / Nancy Lou Conklin-Brittain, Richard W. Wrangham, and Catherine C. Smith
  • Plants of the apes: is there a hominoid model for the origins of the hominid diet? / Peter S. Rodman
  • Hunter-gatherer diets: wild foods signal relief from diseases of affluence / Katharine Milton
  • Hominid dietary niches from proxy chemical indicators in fossils: the Swartkrans example / Julia Lee-Thorp
  • Paleontological evidence for the diets of African Plio-Pleistocene hominins with special reference to early Homo / Mark F. Teaford, Peter S. Ungar, and Frederick E. Grine.