Researchers in fields including nutritional anthropology, ethnography, physiology, primatology, and paleontology establish a cohesive view of the history of the human diet. Chapters explain both how an understanding of the food preferences of our distance ancestors can help with health and nutrition today and also what methods are being used to reconstruct humans' early diets. The volume is an outgrowth of a symposium held at the 14th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)