From the snub-nosed monkeys of China to the mountain gorillas of central Africa, our closest
nonhuman relatives are in critical danger worldwide. A recent report, for example, warns that …

The nutritional needs of today's humans arose through a multimillion year evolutionary
process during nearly all of which genetic change reflected the life circumstances of our …

Despite recent, compelling challenge, the evolution of Homo erectusis still commonly
attributed to big game hunting and/or scavenging and family provisioning by men. Here we …

For social species, the environment has two components: physical and social. The social
environment modifies the individual's interaction with the physical environment, and the …

The appearance of Oldowan sites ca. 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may reflect one of the most
important adaptive shifts in human evolution. Stone artifact manufacture, large mammal …

Background The use of accelerometers in bio-logging devices has proved to be a powerful
tool for the quantification of animal behaviour. While bio-logging techniques are being used …

Dental microwear has long been used as evidence concerning the diets of extinct species.
Here, we present a comparative baseline series of dental microwear textures for a sample of …

We know a great deal about roles the environment plays in shaping survival, reproductive
success, and even social systems among primates. But how do primate life histories affect …

Human nutritional requirements reflect evolution ary experience extending millions of years
into the past, and for nearly all this period genetic and cultural changes occurred in parallel …

The study of nutritional ecology has proven to be useful for understanding many aspects of
primate behavior and ecology and is a valuable tool in primate conservation. However, to …