Evolving human nutrition : implications for public health /

Ulijaszek, Stanley J.

Evolving human nutrition : implications for public health / Stanley Ulijaszek, Neil Mann, Sarah Elton - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 - vii, 405 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 64 .

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Animal Within: 2. Locating human diet in a mammalian framework; 3. Diet and hominin evolution; 4. Seasonality of environment and diet; 5. Evolution of human diet and eating behaviour; Part II. A Brave New World: 6. When our brains left our bodies behind: dietary change and health discordance; 7. Nutrition and infectious disease, past and present; 8. Inequality and nutritional health; Part III. Once Upon a Time in the West: 9. Nutrition transition; 10. Fats in the global balance; 11. Feed the world with carbohydrates; 12. Post-script; Index

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Human evolution
Prehistoric peoples--Food
Human behavior--Nutritional aspects
Diet--History

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