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Evolution of the Human Diet
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Table of Contents

I. Introduction
1: Alan Walker: Early Hominin Diets: Overview and Historical Perspectives
2: Amanda G. Henry and Bernard Wood: Whose Diet? An Introduction to the Hominin Fossil Record
II. The Hominin Fossil Record
3: Peter W. Lucas: The Evolution of the Hominin Diet from a Dental Functional Perspective
4: Peter S. Unger: Dental Functional Morphology: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable
5: Mark F. Teaford: What Do We Know and Not Know about Diet and Enamel Structure
6: David J. Daegling and Fredrick E. Grine: Mandibular Biomechanics and the Paleontolgical Evidence for the Evolution of Human Diet
7: Mark F. Teaford: What Do We Know and Not Know about Dental Microwear and Diet?
8: Matt Sponheimer, Julia Lee-Thorp, and Darryl de Ruiter: Icarus, Isotopes, and Australopith Dies
9 Reconstructing Early Hominin Diets Evaluating Tooth Chemistry and Macronutrient Composition: Margaret J. Schoeinger:
III. The Archaeological Record
10: Robert J. Blumenschine and Briana L. Pobiner: Zooarchaeology and the Ecology of Oldowan Hominin Carnivory
11: Henry t. Bunn: Meat Made Us Human
12: John J. Shea: Lithic Archaeology, or, What Stone Tools Can (and Can't) Tell Us about Early Hominin Diets
IV. Paleoecology and Modeling
13: Theoretical and Actualistic Ecobotanical Perspectives on Early Hominin Diets and Paleoecology
14: Kaye E. Reed and Amy L. Rector: African Pliocene Paleoecology: Hominin Habitats, Resources, and Diets
15: Modeling the Significance of Paleoenvironmental Context for Early Hominin Diets
16: Richard Wrangham: The Cooking Enigma
17: Joanna E. Lambert: Seaonality, Fallback Strategies, and Natural Selection: A Chimpanzee and Cercopithecoid Model for Interpreting the Evolution of Hominin Diet
18: William R. Leonard,Marcia L. Robertson, and J.Josh Snodgrass: Energetic Models of Human Nutritional Evolution
V. Implications of Studies of Early Hominin Diets
19: Loren Cordain: Implications of Pilo-Pleistocene Hominin Diets for Modern Humans
20: S. Boyd Eaton: Preagricultural Diets and Evolutionary Health Promotion
21: Peter S. Unger: Limits to Knowledge on the Evolution of Hominin Diet
Index

About the Author

Peter S. Ungar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas.

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"This excellent survey of current knowledge in a burgeoning field will be potentially useful as the basis for seminars as well as basic research work. Recommended"--CHOICE
"This excellent survey of current knowledge in a burgeoning field will be potentially useful as the basis for seminars as well as basic research work. Recommended"--CHOICE

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