Human nutrition: Evolutionary perspectives

N. A. Barnicot

DOI:10.1007/BF02734246

Corpus ID: 39549910

Human nutrition: Evolutionary perspectives

@article{Barnicot2005HumanNE,
  title={Human nutrition: Evolutionary perspectives},
  author={N. A. Barnicot},
  journal={Integrative Physiological \& Behavioral Science},
  year={2005},
  volume={40},
  pages={114-117}
}

N. A. Barnicot
Published 2005
History, Medicine
Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science

In recent decades, much new evidence relating to the ape forerunners of modern humans has come to hand and diet appears to be an important factor. At some stage, there must have been a transition from a largely vegetarian ape diet to a modern human hunting economy providing significant amounts of meat. On an even longer evolutionary time scale the change was more complex. The mechanisms of evolutionary change are now better understood than they were in Darwin's time, thanks largely to great… Expand

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