Food and evolution : toward a theory of human food habits / edited by Marvin Harris and Eric B. Ross.

Papers originally presented at the 94th Symposium of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Cedar Key, Fla. October 23-30, 1983.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Significance of long-term changes in human diet and food economy / Mark N. Cohen -- Life in the'garden of Eden': causes and consequences of the adoption of marine diets by human societies / David R. Yesner -- Analysis of hunter-gatherer diets: stalking an optimal foraging model / Bruce Winterhalder -- How much food do foragers need? / Kristen Hawkes -- Aboriginal subsistence in a tropical rain forest environment: food procurement, cannibalism, and population regulation in northeastern Australia / David R. Harris -- Ecological and structural influences on the proportions of wild foods in the diets of two Machiguenga communities / Allen Johnson and Michael Baksh -- Limiting factors in Amazonian ecology / Kenneth R. Good -- Loaves and fishes in Bangladesh / Shirley Lindenbaum -- Animal protein consumption and the sacred cow complex in India / K.N. Nair -- Effects of colonialism and neocolonialism on the gastronomic patterns of the third world / Richard W. Franke -- Stability and change in highland Andean dietary patterns / Benjamin S. Orlove -- Social class and diet in contemporary Mexico / Gretel H. Pelto -- From Costa Rican pasture to North American hamburger / Marc Edelman -- Evolution of human subsistence / Anna Roosevelt -- Biocultural aspects of food choice / George Armelagos.