ANTH322

041737

Which diet is best for the human body? For your body? Or put another way, what are our bodies best adapted to eat? The broad answer to these questions is: whatever makes our bodies healthy and our minds happy. But what is that? There are lots of recommendations, sometimes conflicting, about what we should eat. In this class we will explore answers to these questions using an evolutionary framework. We will examine how long humans have been eating various types of foods, variation in diets between human populations, the impact of various types of foods and diets on health, the types of foods our ancestors would have eaten extending back several million years, and how these diets have influenced the shapes of our guts, the size of our brain, our social structure, and much more.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

WE - WEC (Writing Emphasis Course)