Agriculture has long been regarded as an improvement in the human condition: Once Homo
sapiens made the transition from foraging to farming in the Neolithic, health and nutrition …

The term" dental anthropology" first appears in the title of an article publis in 1900 by George
Buschan, although Klatsky & Fisher (97) are credited with its formal introduction (44). The …

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

Dental Functional Morphology offers an alternative to the received wisdom that teeth merely
crush, cut, shear or grind food and shows how teeth adapt to diet. Providing an analysis of …

Cooking is a human universal that must have had widespread effects on the nutrition,
ecology, and social relationships of the species that invented it. The location and timing of its …

No human foragers have been recorded as living without cooking, and people who choose
a 'raw-foodist'life-style experience low energy and impaired reproductive function. This …

Changes in the technology of food preparation over the last few thousand years (especially
cooking, softening, and grinding) are hypothesized to have contributed to smaller facial size …

Evolutionary medicine (EM) is a growing field focusing on the evolutionary basis of human
diseases and their changes through time. To date, the majority of EM studies have used …

A comparison of the evolutionary rates of cranial morphology in mammals with the neutral
expectation suggests that stabilizing selection is a predominant evolutionary force keeping …

In scientific usage, domestication has come to mean the process by which humans
transformed wild animals and plants into more useful products through control of their …