Our ancestral diets have been critical to our success as a species. This volume brings together experts in human and primate ecology, paleontology, and evolutio

We are interested in the evolution of hominin diets for several reasons. One is the fundamental concern over our present-day eating habits and the consequences

In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings

An unprecedented interdisciplinary effort suggests that there is a systematic theory behind why humans eat what they eat.

Exploration of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives and its influence on health and disease, past and present.