Human diet and nutrition in biocultural perspective : past meets present /
"This is a high-quality publication. Many of the chapters are excellent reviews of methods and perspectives in their particular area. The editors have clearly done a good job... There is a strong mix of topics that go well together and are tied together by the first and last chapters."--Al...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2010.
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| Series: | Studies of the biosocial society ;
v. 5. |
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Table of Contents:
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- Evolutionary Perspectives on Nutrition
- 1.
- What Did Humans Evolve to Eat? Metabolic Implications of Major Trends in Hominid Evolution /
- J. J. Snodgrass
- 2.
- Child Growth among Southern African Foragers in the Past /
- L. Harrington
- 3.
- Infant and Young Child Feeding in Human Evolution /
- D. W. Sellen
- Breastfeeding and Beyond: Nutrition throughout the Life Course
- 4.
- The Use of Stable Isotope Analysis to Determine Infant and Young Child Feeding Patterns /
- T. L. Dupras
- 5.
- A Community in Transition: Deconstructing Breastfeeding Trends in Gibraltar, 1955-1996 /
- S. D. A. Burke
- Food Insecurity and Malnutrition
- 6.
- Dietary Diversity, Dietary Transitions, and Childhood Nutrition in Nepal: Questions of Methodology and Practice /
- E. Finnis
- 7.
- Responses to a Food Crisis and Child Malnutrition in the Nigerien Sahel /
- K. Kilpatrick
- Nutritional Factors in Growth and Disease
- 8.
- Growth, Morbidity, and Mortality in Antiquity: A Case Study from Imperial Rome /
- R. MacChiarelli
- 9.
- Examining Nutritional Aspects of Bone Loss and Fragility across the Life Course in Bioarchaeology /
- B. Glencross
- 10.
- Obesity: An Emerging Epidemic
- Temporal Trends in North America /
- P. T. Katzmarzyk.