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Biology

Humans: Smart Enough to Create Processed Foods, Daft Enough to Eat Them

I spend a lot of time thinking about food and health and have a suspicion…

Ian Spreadbury
April 30, 2019

AnthropologyFood for thought

The Future of the Ancestral Health Movement

In the scarce environment of our ancestral past, having a preference for highly sweet and…

Hamilton M. Stapell
April 25, 2019

Health

Debunking the Hunter-Gatherer Workout

DARWIN isn’t required reading for public health officials, but he should be.

eiadminAugust 27, 2012

BiologyHealth

Is Corn the New Milk? Evolutionarily Speaking, That Is

Some of the best-known examples of recent evolutionary change in humans are attributable to technology.…

eiadminAugust 10, 2012

BiologyPaleontology

Early Meat-Eating Human Ancestors Thrived While Vegetarian Hominin Died Out

There has been fierce debate recently over whether the original “caveman” diet was one of…

eiadminAugust 9, 2012

EnvironmentHealth

Dirtying Up Our Diets

Reintroducing coevolutionary diets to improve health outcomes.

eiadminJune 21, 2012

Paleontology

Tastes Like Chicken

Digging in Jehol, China, the paleontologists uncovered a fossil of Microraptor that had the preserved…

eiadminFebruary 28, 2012