To date, no complete evolutionary explanation has been given for the formation of the human species, and certainly not a complete and unifying explanation at the same time.
An evolutionary explanation explains a physiological or behavioral phenomenon in a species … Read the rest

 
From time to time academic researchers of one specialization or another find it worthwhile to try to debunk the Paleolithic Diet. This time it is a chapter in the book “Bioarchaeologists speak out” titled: ” Stone Agers in the Fast … Read the rest

The risk reduction template that is Paleo is extremely simple. We are best adapted to the consumption of meat and not yet, or less adapted, to the consumption of new foods. The closer we are to our adapted state, the … Read the rest

A recent paper (Weyrich et al., 2017) received an enormous amount of publicity, with a claim that Neandertals in El Sidron, Spain were vegetarians. Some media headlines could even be interpreted as suggesting that the Paleo Diet was vegetarian.

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The headlines are all over the media: The Paleo Diet May Need a Rewrite, Ancient Humans Feasted on a Wide Variety of Plants   writes the Smithsonian and defines the Paleo diet as a baseless “fad”. Amanda Henry, a prominent researcher, … Read the rest

Big Brain Need Carb is the title of the press announcement that accompanied the publication of a paper by Hardy et al. that was slightly more mutely titled “The Importance of Dietary Carbohydrate in Human Evolution” (1).

I don’t think … Read the rest