This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today. Demography and …
La peur de manquer de nourriture mais aussi les craintes sur la qualité des aliments ont poussé depuis le Moyen Age les Occidentaux à surveiller avec attention leur alimentation. Même si leur comportement face à l'alimentation a changé au fil du temps reste la peur de ne pas sav…
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Nutrition and Immunity in native America: A Historical and Biological Controversy; Chapter 1: Out of Eden: Agriculture and the Ambiguity of Human Health from the Paleolithic Era to the Medieval; Black Death; Chapter 2: Native Americ…
Decolonizing the Diet challenges the common claim that native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in virgin soils that were biologically distinct from those in the Old World. Comparing the European transition from Paleolithic hunting and gathering w…
Decolonizing the Diet challenges the common claim that native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in virgin soils that were biologically distinct from those in the Old World. Comparing the European transition from Paleolithic hunting and gathering w…
Human diet: its origin and evolution
Diet is key to understanding the past, present, and future of our species. Much of human evolutionary success can be attributed to our ability to consume a wide range of foods. On the other hand, recent changes in the types of foods we eat may lie at the root of many of the heal…
Human diet: its origin and evolution
by Ungar, Peter S., Teaford, Mark Franklyn
fromABC-Clio ebook