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Category Archives: Food
Links for a Monday morning
Some readings from around the web to start the week… Estimating the rate of mutation and the human evolutionary clock This is a big , complex and unfolding story that I have been meaning to comment on and still hope … Continue reading
Posted in Brain, Evolution, Food, Genetics
Tagged dating, links, molecular clock, politics, scientific retraction, sushi
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More problems with the paleodiet
In my Anthropology of Food class we have spent the past two weeks talking about the technological, dietary, cultural and population health transitions from the late Paleolithic, through the origin of agriculture, to present-day industrial-scale food production, with much of … Continue reading
More on the porotic hyperostosis at Olduvai Gorge
John Crandall and Deb Martin write a reply to DomÃnguez-Rodrigo et al. (which I commented on last week) that seems to broaden some of the points I raised. They like the diagnosis of porotic hyperostosis, but are skeptical of the … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Fossils
Tagged early Homo, meat, Olduvia, paleopathology, porotic hyperostosis
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Meat-eating, porotic hyperostosis and early Homo
A large group of researchers working at Olduvai Gorge, including Manuel DomÃnguez-Rodrigo (IDEA, Madrid), Charles Musiba (UC-Denver) and Henry Bunn (U. Wisconsin), have a paper out in PLOS One this week on evidence of porotic hyperostosis in a 1.5 million … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Fossils
Tagged early Homo, meat, paleo diet, paleopathology, porotic hyperostosis
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Meat and the paleodiet
I was making lunch for my kids this morning when I happened to hear this NPR piece on the radio. The issue, similar to what I commented on a few weeks ago, is the paleodiet. This time, the story is … Continue reading
More on evolutionary approaches to diet
New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has gotten a lot of attention with his recent announcement to institute a partial ban on large-size soda options in the city. The initiative, meant in some ways to address the growing problems of … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Food
Tagged Bloomberg soda ban, diet, Hooton
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Problems with “the” paleo-diet
NPR recently picked up a story on “the paleo diet” moving more mainstream. The basic idea behind the paleo diet is that evolution has shaped our metabolic processes to fit a certain kind of diet, and by and large, we … Continue reading
Russian cuisine as innovation loss
Spending 14 hours in airports and planes yesterday offered me the rare opportunity to read an issue of the New Yorker cover to cover. Reading one of the stories, “The Borscht Belt” by Julia Ioffe, I could not help but … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Food
Tagged cuisine, innovation loss, Technology
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Cooking, fire and food
It is only fitting on the heels of Thanksgiving to have a little discussion of cooking, fire and food. Dennis Sandgathe and colleagues have a paper in Paleoanthropology reviewing the evidence for fire-control in Western European Neandertals. In the article, … Continue reading
Posted in Energetics, Evolution, Food
Tagged cooking, fire, Middle Paleolithic, Neandertal
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Tooth wear and stable isotopes: what were these fossils eating?
The New York Times has picked up a story on an article which came out in last week’s edition of Science on hominin diets. The review paper, co-authored by Peter Ungar (Univ. of Arkansas) and Matt Sponheimer (Univ. of Colorado) … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Fossils
Tagged Australopiths, early Homo, Microwear, Stable Isotopes, Teeth
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