Overview: Comprehensive, multifaceted explanation of human nutrition and evolutionary needs.Synthesizes increasing number of arguments against the prevailing theories of big-game hunting.Provides a new explanatSince its inception, paleoanthropology has been closely wedded to the idea that big-game hunting by our hominin ancestors arose, first and foremost, as a means for acquiring energy and vital nutrients. This assumption has rarely been questioned, and seems intuitively obvious—meat is a nutrient-rich food with the ideal array of amino acids, and big animals provide meat in large, convenien
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