What were they *really* making with those starches?
I hate to beat a dead horse with this"paleo bread" news blather, but I don't know why this didn't occur to me before. So these archaeologists think that people laboriously dug up these roots and ground...
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I was curious recently about use of bones as food in the paleolithic. One interesting paper I found was Gazelle bone fat processing in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic. Epipalaeolithic is a term for an...
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Neanderthal diets included some grains
FYI: if you've told your family about the paleo diet, some time this week you are liable to get sent this article Neanderthals may have feasted on meat and two veg diet by your Aunt Maude, who was...
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N=0: The Perils of Using Art for Paleopathology
As interesting as Venus-gate is, I don't think art from the paleolithic really tells us much about the health of the average person. Think of some famous artwork from our era, imagine there is a...
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The Great and Mighty Eland
Physical Anthropologist John D. Speth wrote a fantastic book called The Paleoanthropology and Archaeology of Big-Game Hunting: Protein, Fat, or Politics? It's kind of a crime that it's not more widely...
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The Human Colon in Evolution: Part 1, comparative anatomy
This will be one of the few series posts I'll actually finish since it's already written :) I'd like to thank Stephan Guyenet, Chris Masterjohn, and Professor Holloway for their tips, critiques, and...
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The Human Colon in Evolution: Part 2, Fiber Foolishness
Suggestions that humans may have obtained more calories from SCFA in the past are rooted in estimates of fiber consumption from the Paleolithic. Evidence is rather sparse and limited to coprolites. In...
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Can you digest bone?
Possible too gross for some, via John Hawks, this article that mentions a most interesting experiment mentioned in an article on strange science:yum?If you like shrews, especially if you like them...
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Are liquid carbohydrates evolutionarily novel?
In the debate surrounding the NYC ban on large soft drinks earlier this year, the argument came up that we had to regulate them because liquid calories are evolutionarily novel and inappropriate for...
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No, we don't know how much protein "cavemen" ate
How hard it is to read a scientific study? Should you bother to learn? I recently commented on a blog post on that subject. Reading a study to figure out what to tell other people what to do is hard....
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Paleo Fantasies: Debunking The Carnivore Ape Narrative
Every two years or so I notice a cyclical trend in the online “paleo” community. It’s the resurgence of dogmatic carnivory. It has two main themes: plants are “poisons” that cause most of our health...
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