We must understand the evolution of the human diet. Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution Peter S. Ungar, Mark Franklyn. Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution. Discussions of the evolution of the earliest human ancestors have. Evolution of Human Diet, eds Ungar P. Diet, and Human Origins: NHBS - Peter S Ungar, Princeton. A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human. Peter Ungar’s latest book follows dietary clues from fossil teeth to trace the impact of diet on human evolution. The Evolution of Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable T. Ungar Department of Anthropology University of Arkansas. A paleontological perspective on the evolution of human diet. Peter Ungar 1. A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite, noted paleoanthropologist Peter Ungar brings together for the first time cutting- edge advances in understanding human evolution and climate change with new approaches to uncovering dietary clues from fossil teeth to present a remarkable investigation into the ways that teeth—their shape, chemistry, and wear—reveal how we came to be. Ungar describes how a tooth's . These clues, combined with groundbreaking research in paleoclimatology, demonstrate how a changing climate altered the food options available to our ancestors, what Ungar calls the biospheric buffet. When diets change, species change, and Ungar traces how diet and an unpredictable climate determined who among our ancestors was winnowed out and who survived, as well as why we transitioned from the role of forager to farmer. By sifting through the evidence—and the scars on our teeth—Ungar makes the important case for what might or might not be the most natural diet for humans. Traveling the four corners of the globe and combining scientific breakthroughs with vivid narrative, Evolution's Bite presents a unique dental perspective on our astonishing human development. Peter S. Ungar is Distinguished Professor and director of the Environmental Dynamics Program at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of Teeth: A Very Short Introduction and Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity and the editor of Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Reviews. Ungar places the evolutionary changes of teeth within the history of scientific discovery. Researchers and their methods have as much presence as the facts they discovered and the hypotheses they developed, providing readers with a short course on the deep science of dental anatomy. Christopher Beard, Science. Ungar’s book is about as close to a tour de force as a science book is likely to get. The writing is accessible, often witty, and the balance between discussion of what the empirical data has to show us and the history of the field of paleoarchaeology itself creates a narrative of the lives of both the discovered and the discoverers that is hard to put down. I recommend this book with my highest praise. An excellent book for those with a serious interest in anthropology.
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