The Cardiac Health of the Tsimane
A lot of discussion is constantly had about what is the healthiest diet; low fat or low carb. An interesting …
Tag Archives: diet
The Effect of Diet Changes and The Selection of European Fatty Acid Desaturases
UC Berkeley Integrative Biologist, Rasmus Nielsen and his colleagues, published a fascinating study in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution looking at …
Agriculture Reduced The Periodicity & Amplitude Of Nutritional Stress
Razib has responded to my disagreement with his statement that any given hunter-gatherer infant is far more likely to reach …
Why Do Women Have More Cavities?
Razib has chimed in on the latest piece of research to come from John Lukacs, “Fertility and Agriculture Accentuate Sex …
Zooarchaeological Analysis Of Animal Remains From Vanguard & Gorham’s Caves In Gibraltar
Zooarchaeology is an anthropological sub-discipline which focuses on studying animal remains from archaeological sites. Animal remains can tell us a …
Advent Of Cooking & The Big Cognitive Leap In Human Evolution
In the open access paper, “Metabolic changes in schizophrenia and human brain evolution,” Phillipp Khaitovich and team have compared the …
According to Yoel Rak, Neandertals were ‘big mouth Bass’ variants of humans
A summary of Yoel Rak’s talk at the last month meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society in Vancouver, Canada has surfaced …
Shanidar III – A Neandertal who ate his veggies… Or at least chewed them
Last month’s annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society hosted a talk by Amanda Henry, a graduate student at George Washington …
How chimpanzee and human diets affect gene expression
Even though I read the classic 1975 Science paper by Mary-Claire King and Allan Wilson, where they demonstrated through comparative …
Declines in upper paleolithic European human populations due to less food
Eugène Morin of Trent University has just published this paper in PNAS, “Evidence for declines in human population densities during …
