Evolution's Bite

by Ungar, Peter S.

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Title Statements

Full title :Evolution's Bite.

Summary

Ungar describes how a tooth's 'foodprints'--distinctive patterns of microscopic wear and tear--provide telltale details about what an animal actually ate in the past. These clues, combined with groundbreaking research in paleoclimatology, demonstrate how a changing climate altered the food options available to our ancestors, what Ungar calls the biospheric buffet. When diets change, species change, and Ungar traces how diet and an unpredictable climate determined who among our ancestors was winnowed out and who survived, as well as why we transitioned from the role of forager to farmer. By sifting through the evidence--and the scars on our teeth--Ungar makes the important case for what might or might not be the most natural diet for humans.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1400884756, 9781400884759
oclc:ocn983475573
LC Classification:GN281.4.U54
Dewey Decimal:599.9/43

How teeth work -- How teeth are used -- Out of the garden -- Our changing world -- Foodprints -- What made us human -- The Neolithic revolution -- Victims of our own success.

Subjects

Alimentation -- Histoire Anthropologie de l'alimentation Biological Evolution Dental anthropology Dentition Dents fossiles Diet Diet -- History Ernährung Évolution Évolution (Biologie) Evolution (Biology) Fossil hominids Frühmensch History Hominidae Hominisation Homme -- Évolution Homme fossile Homme préhistorique -- Alimentation