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December 1, 2002

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Food for Thought

Dietary change was a driving force in human evolution

By William R. Leonard

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Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Nutrition: The Influence of Brain and Body Size on Diet and Metabolism. William R. Leonard and Marcia L. Robertson in American Journal of Human Biology, Vol. 6, No. 1, pages 77- 88; January 1994.

Rethinking the Energetics of Bipedality. William R. Leonard and Marcia L. Robertson in Current Anthropology, Vol. 38, No.2, pages 304- 309; April 1997.

Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Approach. Edited by Sara Stinson, Barry Bogin, Rebecca Huss-Ashmore and Dennis O'Rourke. Wiley-Liss, 2000.

Ecology, Health and Lifestyle Change among the Evenki Herders of Siberia. William R. Leonard, Victoria A. Galloway, Evgueni Ivakine, Ludmila Osipova and Marina Kazakovtseva in Human Biology of Pastoral Populations. Edited by William R. Leonard and Michael H. Crawford. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

An Ecomorphological Model of the Initial Hominid Dispersal from Africa. Susan C. Ant¿n, William R. Leonard and Marcia L. Robertson in Journal of Human Evolution (in press).

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 287 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “Food for Thought” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 287 No. 6 ()
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