• DOI:10.1086/682587
Corpus ID: 28309169

The Importance of Dietary Carbohydrate in Human Evolution

@article{Hardy2015TheIO,
  title={The Importance of Dietary Carbohydrate in Human Evolution},
  author={K. Hardy and J. Brand-Miller and K. Brown and Mark George Thomas and L. Copeland},
  journal={The Quarterly Review of Biology},
  year={2015},
  volume={90},
  pages={251 - 268}
}

• K. Hardy, J. Brand-Miller, +2 authors L. Copeland
• Published 2015
• Biology, Medicine
• The Quarterly Review of Biology

We propose that plant foods containing high quantities of starch were essential for the evolution of the human phenotype during the Pleistocene. Although previous studies have highlighted a stone tool-mediated shift from primarily plant-based to primarily meat-based diets as critical in the development of the brain and other human traits, we argue that digestible carbohydrates were also necessary to accommodate the increased metabolic demands of a growing brain. Furthermore, we acknowledge the… Expand

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