Human diet : its origin and evolution / edited by Peter S. Ungar and Mark F. Teaford.

Westport, Conn. ; London : Bergin & Garvey, 2002.

viii, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Perspectives on the evolution of human diet / Peter S. Ungar and Mark F. Teaford -- Evolution, diet, and health / S. Boyd Eaton, Stanley B. Eaton III, and Loren Cordain -- Post-Pleistocene human evolution: bioarcheology of the agricultural transition / Clark Spencer Larsen -- Early childhood health in foragers / Sara Stinson -- Meat-eating, grandmothering, and the evolution of early human diets / James O'Connell, Kristen Hawkes, and Nicholas Blurton Jones -- A two-stage model of increased dietary quality in early hominid evolution: the role of fiber / Nancy Lou Conklin-Brittain, Richard W. Wrangham, and Catherine C. Smith -- Plants of the apes: is there a hominoid model for the origins of the hominid diet? / Peter S. Rodman -- Hunter-gatherer diets: wild foods signal relief from diseases of affluence / Katharine Milton -- Hominid dietary niches from proxy chemical indicators in fossils: the Swartkrans example / Julia Lee-Thorp -- Paleontological evidence for the diets of African Plio-Pleistocene hominins with special reference to early Homo / Mark F. Teaford, Peter S. Ungar, and Frederick E. Grine.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-200) and index.