Recent data suggest that the human body is not such a neatly self-sufficient island after all. It
is more like a super-complex ecosystem containing trillions of bacteria and other …

Most nonhuman primates prey on vertebrates. Meat-eating, defined as ingestion of
vertebrate tissue, occurs in 12 families,≥ 39 genera, and≥ 89 species. It is most common in …

Questions about the timing, frequency, resource yield, and behavioral and biological
implications of large animal carcass acquisition by early hominins have been a part of the …

Natural selection, as both a process and a scientific concept, is eloquently simple.
Unfortunately, this simplicity sometimes belies Darwin's broader view of evolution as a …

The number of primates on the brink of extinction continues to grow, and the need to
respond with effective conservation measures has never been greater. This book provides a …

Researchers who study ancient human diets tend to focus on meat eating because the
practice of butchery is very apparent in the archaeological record. In this volume, Julie …

Genomic data provide an excellent resource to improve understanding of retrovirus
evolution and the complex relationships among viruses and their hosts. In conjunction with …

Tam Pà Ling, a cave site in northeastern Laos, has yielded the earliest skeletal evidence of
Homo sapiens in mainland Southeast Asia. The reliance of Pleistocene humans in rainforest …

Only seven types of mammals are known to be venomous, including slow lorises
(Nycticebus spp.). Despite the evolutionary significance of this unique adaptation amongst …

The evolutionary origins of speech remain obscure. Recently, it was proposed that speech
derived from monkey facial signals which exhibit a speech-like rhythm of∼ 5 open-close lip …