The practice of eating insects has been documented for a long time. With obvious economic
and environmental advantages, edible insects are in the spotlight recently due to their …

A number of health and agricultural organizations have been encouraging Westerners to
integrate insects into their diet, without success. Appealing to consumer's reason and …

The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been
recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological …

Organisms often rely on environmental cues to make behavioral and life-history decisions.
However, in environments that have been altered suddenly by humans, formerly reliable …

Diet composition and food choice are not only central to the daily lives of all living people,
but are consistently linked with turning points in human evolutionary history. As such …

A quarter century has passed since the first publication of the evolutionary discordance
hypothesis, according to which departures from the nutrition and activity patterns of our …

Insects have long been consumed as part of the diets of many Asian, African, and South
American cultures. However, despite international agencies such as the Food and …

Western cultures currently struggle to have insects accepted as a human food. This barrier is
not as high in many parts of the Asia Pacific region because entomophagy is (or was until …

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 …

A colony of 26 chimpanzees given a fruit and vegetable diet of very low Na and high K
intake were maintained in long–standing, socially stable small groups for three years. Half of …