The consumption of insects (entomophagy) has recently attracted global attention for health
reasons as well as environmental and economic benefits. Achieving environmentally …

Background Edible insects are considered as traditional foods in over 100 countries of Asia,
Africa, and South America. Apart from this traditional aspect, edible insects are gaining …

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

In recent years, there has been a tendency to correlate the origin of modern culture and
language with that of anatomically modern humans. Here we discuss this correlation in the …

Twenty-eight bone tools were recovered in situ from ca. 70ka year old Middle Stone Age
levels at Blombos Cave between 1992 and 2000. These tools are securely provenienced …

Possibilities of edible insects use in European countries, are now an increasingly debated
issue. Insects in Asian, African, Central American and South Central American cultures are …

The Encyclopaedia fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural stud ies.
Reference works on other cultures tend either to omit science completely or pay little …

The world population has been estimated to increase to over nine billion people by 2050
(United Nations, 2019), with the demand for animal-derived protein expected to rise at an …

Data on insects as food in sub-Saharan Africa were collected by reviewing the literature and
conducting interviews in a number of African countries. A list of about 250 edible insect …

The appearance of Oldowan sites ca. 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may reflect one of the most
important adaptive shifts in human evolution. Stone artifact manufacture, large mammal …