TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ungar,Peter S.
TI  - Evolution's bite: a story of teeth, diet, and human origins 
SN  - 9780691160535
AV  - GN281.4 .U54 2017
U1  - 599.9/43 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Teeth
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Dental anthropology
KW  - Nutritional anthropology
KW  - Prehistoric peoples
KW  - Food
KW  - Diet
KW  - History
KW  - Fossil hominids
KW  - Teeth, Fossil
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index; Introduction -- How teeth work -- How teeth are used -- Out of the garden -- Our changing world -- Foodprints -- What made us human -- The Neolithic revolution -- Victims of our own success
N2  - Ungar describes how a tooth's "foodprints"--distinctive patterns of microscopic wear and tear--provide telltale details about what an animal actually ate in the past. These clues, combined with groundbreaking research in paleoclimatology, demonstrate how a changing climate altered the food options available to our ancestors, what Ungar calls the biospheric buffet. When diets change, species change, and Ungar traces how diet and an unpredictable climate determined who among our ancestors was winnowed out and who survived, as well as why we transitioned from the role of forager to farmer. By sifting through the evidence--and the scars on our teeth--Ungar makes the important case for what might or might not be the most natural diet for humans
ER  -