Australopithecus africanus Had Similar Dental Issues As Us
Ian Towle of John Moores University and colleagues published an interesting paper in the International Journal of Paleopathology that illuminates …
Tag Archives: diet
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 …
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 …
