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028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _b;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092 _c;BW/005586 _d;13/11/2019
082			_a599.943 UNG
100			_aPeter S Ungar
245			_aEvolution's bite _b: a story of teeth, diet, and human origins _c/Peter S Ungar
260			_aPrinceton, New Jersey _b: Princeton University Press _c, 2017
300			_aix, 236 pages _c; 25 cm
365			_b1462
505			_a Introduction -- How teeth work -- How teeth are used -- Out of the garden -- Our changing world -- Foodprints -- What made us human -- The Neolithic revolution -- Victims of our own success.
520			_a Ungar describes how a tooth's "foodprints"--Distinctive patterns of microscopic wear and tear--provide telltale details about what an animal actually ate in the past. These clues, combined with groundbreaking research in paleoclimatology, demonstrate how a changing climate altered the food options available to our ancestors, what Ungar calls the biospheric buffet. When diets change, species change, and Ungar traces how diet and an unpredictable climate determined who among our ancestors was winnowed out and who survived, as well as why we transitioned from the role of forager to farmer. By sifting through the evidence--and the scars on our teeth--Ungar makes the important case for what might or might not be the most natural diet for humans.
650			_aNutritional anthropology
655			_aPrehistoric peoples--Food
700			_aPeter S Ungar
942			_cBOOK