Microbes in the gastrointestinal tract are under selective pressure to manipulate host eating
behavior to increase their fitness, sometimes at the expense of host fitness. Microbes may do …

There is growing awareness that the profound changes in the environment (eg, in diet and
other lifestyle conditions) that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal …

In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were
Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes …

Cover--Half-title--Title page--Copyright information--Dedication--Table of contents--List of
figures--Preface--Acknowledgments--Chapter 1 Introduction: The Social Life of food--The …

The Ache, whose life history the authors recounts, are a small indigenous population of
hunters and gatherers living in the neotropical rainforest of eastern Paraguay. This is part …

The nature and causes of the disappearance of Neanderthals and their apparent
replacement by modern humans are subjects of considerable debate. Many researchers …

Why are human food habits so diverse? Why do Americans recoil at the thought of dog
meat? Jews and Moslems, pork? Hindus, beef? Why do Asians abhor milk? In Good to Eat …

The nature of hunter-gatherer mobility strategies--the way in which hunter-gatherers move
about a landscape over the course of a year--is discussed, using ethnographic data. Several …

Both anthropologists and nutritionists have long recognized that the diets of modern-day
hunter-gatherers may represent a reference standard for modern human nutrition and a …

This paper aims to describe and explain aspects of food sharing among Ache hunter-
gatherers of eastern Paraguay. Food sharing has been widely held to be a fundamental …