FOOD AND CULTURE
 

The Last Banana (© Larry Korhnak)

 

Evolutionary Studies and Physical Anthropology

 

Abrams HL (1978) A Diachronic Preview of Wheat in Hominid Nutrition. Journal of Applied Nutrition. 30:41-55 [foodstuff; human evolution].

Abrams HL (1986) Fire and Cooking as a Major Influence on Human Cultural Advancement. Journal of Applied Nutrition. 38:24-29 [meat and vegetables in diet; human evolution].

Aiello L; Wheeler P (1995) The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis the Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution. Current Recommended -- click for detailsAnthropology. 36:199-221 [physical anthropology; digestive system; small gut; metabolism; monkeys, apes, early homonids].

Allen J; Cheer S (1996) The Non-Thrifty Genotype. Current Anthropology. 37:831-842 [human evolution and adaptation; non-insulin-dependent diabetes (type II); lactose; cow's milk].

Allport S (2000) The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love. Harmony Books [paleoanthropology; social relations].

Anderson P (1983) The Reproductive Role of the Human Breast. Current Anthropology. 24:25-45 [human evolution; breastfeeding].

Beller A (1978) Fat and Thin: A Natural History of Obesity [eating attitudes; obesity; physiology of body fat; human evolution].

Berdanier C (2000) Nutrient-Gene Interactions. Nutrition Today. 35:8- [nutritional anthropology; human evolution; nutrition and health].

Blaxter K (1989) Energy Metabolism in Animals and Man. Cambridge University Press [physical anthropology; evolution; metabolism; food processing; non-human primates].

Brenton B; Paine R (2000) Pellagra and Paleonutrition: Assessing the Diet and Health of Maize Horticulturalists through Skeletal Biology. Nutritional Anthropology. 22:2-9 [prehistory; physical anthropology; hunger; pellagra].

Cavelli-Sforza LT; Strata A; Barone A, et al. (1987) Primary Lactose Malabsorption in Italy: Regional Differences in Prevalence and Relationship to Lactose Intolerance and Milk Consumption. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 45:748-754 [physical anthropology; lactose; milk use; Europe; Italy].

Chakravarthy MV; Booth FW (2004) Eating, Exercise, And "Thrifty" Genotypes: Connecting the Dots toward an Evolutionary Understanding of Modern Chronic Diseases. Journal of Applied Physiology. 96:3-10 [chronic disease; human evolution; genotype].

Cook D (1979) Subsistence Base and Health in the Lower Illinois Valley: Evidence from the Human Skeleton. Medical Anthropology. 4:109-124 [prehistory; physical anthropology; origins of agriculture; North American Indian].

Cook D (1984) Subsistence and Health in the Lower Illinois Valley: Osteological Evidence. in MN Cohen; GJ Armelagos (eds) Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. Academic Press [prehistory; physical anthropology; origins of agriculture; North American Indian].

Must Have for Reference Shelf -- click for detailsDawson DA (1988) Ethnic Differences in Female Overweight. American Journal of Public Health. 78:1326-1329- [physical anthropology; overweight; obesity; ethnicity].

Draper HH (2000) Human Nutritional Adaptation: Biological and Cultural Aspects. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1466-1476 [human evolution; dietary and behavior adjustment].

Eaton SB; Konner M (1985) Paleolithic Nutrition. New England Journal of Medicine. 312:283-289 [paleoanthropology; diet; nutrition].

Elgar MA; Crespi BJ (1992) Cannibalism: Ecology and Evolution among Diverse Taxa. Oxford University Press [animal behavior; cannibalism; ecology; human evolution].

Flodin N (1999) Nutritional Influences in the Geographic Dispersal of Pleistocene Man. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 38:71- [paleoanthropology].

Freeman L (1981) The Fat of the Land: Notes on Paleolithic Diet in Iberia. in RO Harding; G Teleki (eds) Omnivorous Primates: Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution, pp. 104-165 [paleoanthropology; Europe].

Frisancho AR (1978) Nutritional Influences on Human Growth and Maturation. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 21:171-191 [physical anthropology; nutritional anthropology; growth and development].

Fuller K (2000) Lactose, Rickets, and the Coevolution of Genes and Culture. Human Ecology. 28:471- [human evolution].

Goldman A (2000) Symposium: Bioactivity in Milk and Bacterial Interactions in the Developing Immature Intestine -- Modulation of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Infants by Human Milk. Journal of Nutrition. 130:4263- [food use; human milk; child nutrition; human evolution; nutritional anthropology].

Gordon K (1987) Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Diet. in FE Johnston (ed) Nutritional Anthropology [human evolution; primates].

Important Theory Explored -- click for detailsGowlett JAJ (2003) What Actually Was the Stone Age Diet? Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. 13:143-147 [paleoanthropology; dietary evolution].

Hamilton W. 1987. Omnivorous Primate Diets and Human Overconsumption of Meat. IN Food and Evolution. M Harris, E Ross (editors). 117-132. Temple University Press. [non-human primates; evolution, food preference; meat]

Harrison GG (1975) Primary Lactase Deficiency: A Problem in Anthropological Genetics. American Anthropologist. 77:812-835 [food use; milk; human evolution; diet and disease].

Harrison GG (1985) Biological Anthropology and Nutrition. Journal of Human Evolution. 14:335-339 [human evolution].

Hawkes K (1991) Showing Off: Tests of a Hypothesis About Men's Foraging Goals. Ethnology and Sociobiology. 2:29-54 [food sharing; human evolution; behavioral ecology; hunter-gatherer; South America; Paraguay; Ache].

Henneberg M; Sarafis V; Mathers K (1998) Human Adaptation to Meat Eating. Human Evolution. 13:229- [human evolution; meat eating].

Huang HT (2002) Hypolactasia and the Chinese Diet. Current Anthropology. 43:809-819 [food processing and use; milk; yogurt; human evolution; history; East Asia; China].

Huss-Ashmore R (1980) Fat and Fertility: Demographic Implications of Differential Fat Storage. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 23:65-91- [body fat; physical anthropology; physiology; ecology].

Johns T (1990) With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It: Chemical Ecology and the Origins of Human Diet and Medicine. University of Arizona [human evolution; diet; plant (vegetarian) species].

Johns T. 1996. The Origins of Human Diet and Medicine. University of Arizona Press. [paleolithic diet; human evolution]

Johns T (1999) The Chemical Ecology of Human Ingestive Behaviors. Annual Review of Anthropology. 28:27-50 [diet; medicine; human evolution].

Jolly A (1985) The Evolution of Primate Behavior [non-human primates; physical anthropology].

Kaplan H; Hill K (1985) Food Sharing among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses. Current Anthropology. 26:223-246 [social relations; human evolution; behavioral ecology; South America; Paraguay].

Katz S (1987) Fava Bean Consumption: A Case for the Co-Evolution of Genes and Culture. in M Harris; E Ross (eds) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press, pp. 133-169 [food use; human evolution].

Katz S (1987) Food and Biological Evolution. in F Johnson (ed) Nutritional Anthropology [physical anthropology; physiology; food processing; food use].

Katz SH (1982) Food, Behavior, and Biocultural Evolution. in LM Barker (ed) The Psychobiology of Human Food Selection. AVI, pp. 171-188 [human evolution; cultural evolution].

Knowler WC; Pettitt DC; Bennett PH, et al. (1981) Diabetes Incidence among the Pima Indians. American Journal of Epidemiology. 113:144-156 [obesity; human evolution; genetic disease; diabetes mellitus].

Knowler WC; Pettitt DC; Bennett PH, et al. (1983) Diabetes Incidence among the Pima Indians: Genetic and Evolutionary Considerations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 113:144-156 [disease; diabetes; physical anthropology; North American Indians; Pima].

Knowler WC; Pettitt DC; Bennett PH, et al. (1983) Diabetes Mellitus in the Pima Indians: Genetic and Evolutionary Considerations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 1983:107-114 [human evolution; genetic disease; obesity; diabetes mellitus].

Kretchmer N (1981) Food: A Selective Agent in Evolution. in DN Walcher; N Kretchmer (eds) Food, Nutrition, and Evolution: Food as an Environmental Factor in the Genesis of Human Variability. Masson, pp. 37-48 [human evolution].

Lancaster J (1978) Carrying and Sharing. Human Nature. [human evolution; social behavior].

Larsen CS (2000) Dietary Reconstruction and Nutritional Assessment of Past Peoples: The Bioanthropological Record. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 13-34 [physical anthropology; human evolution; prehistory].

Larsen CS (2003) Animal Source Foods and Human Health During Evolution. Journal of Nutrition. 133:3893S-3897S [meat eating; physical anthropology].

Lee-Thorp JA; Sponheimer M; van der Merwe NJ (2003) What Do Stable Isotopes Tell Us About Hominid Dietary and Ecological Niches in the Pliocene. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 13:104-113 [paleoanthropology].

Important Theory Explored -- click for detailsLichtenstein A (1999) Dietary Fat: A History. Nutrition Reviews. 57:11- [nutrient, fat; health; human evolution].

Lieberman LS (1987) Biocultural Consequences of Animals Versus Plants as Sources of Fats, Protein, and Other Nutrients. in M Harris; E Ross (eds) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press, pp. 225-258 [nutrition and health; human evolution; disease].

Lieberman LS (2003) Dietary, Evolutionary, and Modernizing Influences on the Prevalence of Type-2 Diabetes. Annual Review of Nutrition. 23:345-377 [disease; human evolution; modernization].

Mann A (1981) Diet and Human Evolution. in RO Harding; G Teleki (eds) Omnivorous Primates: Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution, pp. 10-36 [physical anthropology; human evolution].

Marean CW (2002) Meat Eating and Human Evolution. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 75:951-952 [paleoanthropology].

McCracken R (1971) Lactase Deficiency: An Example of Dietary Evolution. Current Anthropology. 12:479-517 [nutritional lactose; deficiency disease; human evolution].

Milton K (1988) Foraging Behavior and the Evolution of Primate Cognition. in A Whiten; R Byrne (eds) Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans. Oxford University Press, pp. 285-305 [brain; human evolution; non-human primates].

Milton K (1993) Diet and Primate Evolution. Scientific American. 269:86-93 [non-human primates; human evolution].

Milton K (1999) A Hypothesis to Explain the Role of Meat-Eating in Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology. 8:11- [human evolution; meat eating].

Milton K (2003) The Critical Role Played by Animal Source Foods in Human (Homo) Evolution. Journal of Nutrition. 133:3893S-3897S [meat eating; paleoanthropology].

Must Have for Reference Shelf -- click for detailsNestle M (2000) Paleolithic Diets: A Sceptical View. Nutrition Bulletin. 25:43-47 [diet; homonid evolution; hunter-gatherer; prehistory; primates].

Newman M (1975) Nutritional Adaptation in Man [human evolution; adaptation; physiology].

Recommended -- click for detailsOrtner D (2000) Paleopathological Evidence of Malnutrition. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 34-44 [paleoanthropology; malnutrition; diet and disease].

Pearce JC (1992) Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. Harper Collins [human evolution; breastfeeding; mother-child bond; child development; food additives].

Petrinovich L (2000) The Cannibal Within. Aldine de Gruyter [cannibalism; human psychology; human evolution; case materials].

Pond C (1981) Storage. in P Calow; CR Townsend (eds) Physiological Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach to Resource Use. Blackwell Scientific, pp. 190-219 [human evolution; energy nutrition].

Pyke M (1978) The Evolution of Animal Protein in the Human Diet. in AM Altshul; HL Wilcke (eds) New Protein Foods. Academic Press, pp. 47-57 [meat eating; human evolution; history; prehistory].

Rathburn T (2000) Chemical Approaches to Dietary Representation. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 58-63 [physical anthropology].

Ritenbaugh C (1978) Human Foodways: A Window on Evolution. in E Bauwens (ed) Anthropology and Health. Mosby, pp. 111-120 [food habits; human evolution].

Roosevelt A (1987) The Evolution of Human Subsistence. in M Harris; E Ross (eds) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press, pp. 565-578 [prehistory; paleoanthropology; diet; subsistence].

Rose JC; Condon KW; Goodman AH (1985) Diet and Dentition: Developmental Disturbances. in RI Gilbert, Jr.; JH Mielke (eds) The Analysis of Prehistoric Diets. Academic Press [physical anthropology; dietary deficiencies; dentition; prehistory].

Shoeninger M (1989) Reconstructing Prehistoric Human Diet. in TD Price (ed) Chemistry of Prehistoric Human Bone, pp. 36-67 [prehistory; paleoanthropology; osteology].

Simoons F (1973) The Determinants of Dairying and Milk Use in the Old World: Ecological, Physiological, and Cultural. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 2:83-90 [food use; physiology; human evolution].

Simoons F (1978) The Geographic Hypothesis and Lactose Malabsorption. American Journal of Digestive Diseases. 23:963-980 [food use; milk; lactose intolerance; human evolution].

Simoons FJ (1982) Geography and Genetics as Factors in the Psychobiology of Human Food Selection. in LM Barker (ed) The Psychobiology of Human Food Selection. AVI, pp. 205-224 [human evolution; theory; food preference].

Stahl A (1984) Hominid Dietary Selection before Fire. Current Anthropology. 25:151-157 [human evolution; food processing; cookery].

Stini W (1971) Evolutionary Implications of Changing Nutritional Patterns in Human Populations. American Anthopologist. 73:1019-1030 [human evolution].

Stini W (1981) Body Composition and Nutrient Reserves in Evolutionary Perspective. in DN Walcher; N Ketchmer (eds) Food, Nutrition and Evolution: Food as an Evironmental Factor in the Genesis of Human Variability. Masson, pp. 107-120- [human evolution; body fat].

Stini W (1982) Sexual Dimorphism and Nutrient Reserves. in R Hall (ed) Sexual Dismorphism in Homo Sapiens. Praeger [physical anthropology; biological evolution; body fat].

Stini W (1988) Food, Seasonality and Human Evolution. in I de Garine; GA Harrison (eds) Coping with Uncertainty in Food Supply. Clarendon Press, pp. 32-51- [seasonal hunger;human evolution].

Stinson S (1992) Nutritional Adaptation. Annual Review of Anthropology. 21:143-170 [nutritional anthropology; physical anthropology; undernutrition].

Sussman RW (1978) Foraging Patterns of Non-Human Primates and the Nature of Food Preferences in Man. Federation Proceedings, Anthropology and the Assessment of Nutritional Status. 37:55-60 [non-human primates; human evolution; food preference and choice].

Teleki G (1975) Primate Subsistence Patterns: Collector Predators and Gatherer Hunters. Journal of Human Evolution. 4:125-184 [non-human primates; dietary patterns; human evolution].

Teleki G; Harding RO (1981) Omnivorous Primates: Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution. Columbia University Press [human evolution; non-human primates; subsistence patterns].

Ulijaszek SJ (2002) Human Eating Behaviour in Evolutionary Ecological Context. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 61:517-526 [human evolution; hominid diet; eating habits].

Ungar PS; Teaford MF (2002) Human Diet: Its Origins and Evolution. Praeger [collected essays; paleoanthropology; non-human Must Have for Reference Shelf -- click for detailsprimates; evolutionary medicine].

Vaughan SJ; Coulson WDE (2000) Paleodiet in the Aegean. Oxbow Books [paleoanthropology; Europe; Mediterranean].

Wing E (2000) Animals Used for Food in the Past: As Seen by Their Remains Excavated from Archaeological Sites. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 51-58 [paleoanthropology; archaeology; food remains].

Wing E; Brown A (1979) Paleonutrition [paleoanthropology; diet].

Wrangham RW; Jones JH; Laden G, et al. (1999) The Raw and the Stolen: Cooking and the Ecology of Human Origins. Current Anthropology. 40:567-594 [food processing; human evolution].

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