Foraging strategies and natural diet of monkeys, apes, and humans : proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held on 30 and 31 May 1991
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Foraging strategies and natural diet of monkeys, apes, and humans : proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held on 30 and 31 May 1991
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1992
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The beginnings of agriculture started to change our ancestors' natural diet a mere 12,000 years ago. For most of the two-million-year history of the genus Homo, foods were harvested from what the environment of the moment had to offer. The legacy of such natural diets and humans' adaptations to them are increasingly recognized as holding a key to the understanding and prevention of many of today's nutritional problems and diseases.
The nature and evolution of these diets and the foraging strategies underlying them have nevertheless remained poorly understood. This volume, based on a Royal Society Discussion Meeting, brings together the latest findings from a diverse range of relevant disciplines. Three major sections deal in turn with foraging behaviour in African apes and other non-human primates, with the fossil evidence on the diet of our human ancestors, and with the insights gained from studies of present-day hunters
and gatherers. A final section summarizes recent dietary changes and their impact on human health today.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- FORAGING AND DIETARY STRATEGIES OF NON-HUMAN PRIMATES: Olav T. Oftedal: The nutritional consequence of foraging in primates: the relationship of nutrient intakes to nutrient requirements
- R.W. Wrangham, N.L. Conklin, C.A. Chapman and K.D. Hunt: The significance of fibrous foods for Kibale Forest chimpanzees
- Caroline E.G. Tutin, Michael Fernandez, M. Elizabeth Rogers, Elizabeth A. Williamson and William C. McGrew: Foraging profiles of sympatric lowland gorillas and chimpanzees in the Lop Reserve, Gabon
- A. Whiten, R.W. Byrne, R.A. Barton, P.G. Waterman and S.P. Henzi: Dietary and foraging strategies of baboons
- EVOLUTION OF HOMINID FORAGING AND DIET: Peter Andrews and Lawrence Martin: Hominoid dietary evolution
- Robert J. Blumenschine: Hominid carnivory and foraging strategies, and the socio-economic function of early archaeological sites
- R.A. Foley and P.C. Lee: Ecology and energetics of encephalization in hominid evolution
- FOOD OF HUNTER-GATHERERS: Kerin O'Dea: Traditional diet and food preferences of Australian Aboriginal hunter-gatherers
- K. Hawkes, J.F. O'Connell and N.G. Blurton Jones
- Hunting income patterns among the Hadza: big game, common goods, foraging goals and the evolution of the human diet
- Katharine Milton: Comparative aspects of diet in Amazonian forest-dwellers
- John D. Speth: Protein selection and avoidance strategies of contemporary and ancestral foragers: unresolved issues
- HUMAN DIETS: PREHISTORY TO PRESENT DAY: Stanley J. Ulijaszek: Human dietary change
- D.A.T. Southgate: Nature and variability of human food consumption
- Elsie M. Widdowson: Contemporary human diets and their relation to health and growth: overview and conclusions.
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