ISBN:
0877224358
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0877226687
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1439901031
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9780877224358
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9780877226680
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9781439901038
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 633 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Food and evolution
Keywords:
Human evolution
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Nutrition Social aspects
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Prehistoric peoples Food
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Food habits
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Food Habits
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Feeding Behavior
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Habitudes alimentaires
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Êtres humains - Évolution
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Alimentation - Aspect social
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Homme primitif - Alimentation
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Nutrition - Aspect social
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Sociétés préhistoriques - Alimentation
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SOCIAL SCIENCE - Anthropology - Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE - Popular Culture
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SOCIAL SCIENCE - General
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Food habits
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Human evolution
;
Nutrition - Social aspects
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Prehistoric peoples - Food
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Voedingsgewoonten
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Evolutie
Abstract:
An unprecedented interdisciplinary effort suggests that there is a systematic theory behind why humans eat what they eat
Abstract:
Overview of trends in dietary variation from hunter-gatherer to modern capitalist societies / Eric B. Ross -- Foodways: historical overview and theoretical prolegomenon / Marvin Harris -- Primate diets and gut morphology: implications for hominid evolution / Katharine Milton -- Omnivorous primate diets and human overconsumption of meat / William J. Hamilton III -- Fava bean consumption: a case for the co-evolution of genes and culture / Solomon H. Katz -- Problems and pitfalls in the assessment of human nutritional status / P.L. Pellett -- Psychobiological perspectives on food preferences and avoidances / Paul Rozin -- Preference for animal protein and fat: a cross-cultural survey / H. Leon Abrams, Jr. -- Biocultural consequences of animals versus plants as sources of fats, proteins, and other nutrients / Leslie Sue Lieberman
Abstract:
Significance of long-term changes in human diet and food economy / Mark N. Cohen -- Life in the "garden of Eden": causes and consequences of the adoption of marine diets by human societies / David R. Yesner -- Analysis of hunter-gatherer diets: stalking an optimal foraging model / Bruce Winterhalder -- How much food do foragers need? / Kristen Hawkes -- Aboriginal subsistence in a tropical rain forest environment: food procurement, cannibalism, and population regulation in northeastern Australia / David R. Harris -- Ecological and structural influences on the proportions of wild foods in the diets of two Machiguenga communities / Allen Johnson and Michael Baksh -- Limiting factors in Amazonian ecology / Kenneth R. Good -- Loaves and fishes in Bangladesh / Shirley Lindenbaum -- Animal protein consumption and the sacred cow complex in India / K.N. Nair -- Effects of colonialism and neocolonialism on the gastronomic patterns of the third world / Richard W. Franke -- Stability and change in highland Andean dietary patterns / Benjamin S. Orlove -- Social class and diet in contemporary Mexico / Gretel H. Pelto -- From Costa Rican pasture to North American hamburger / Marc Edelman -- Evolution of human subsistence / Anna Roosevelt -- Biocultural aspects of food choice / George Armelagos
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Papers originally presented at the 94th Symposium of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Cedar Key, Fla. October 23-30, 1983
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