List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Chapter 1. Introduction: A Biocultural Approach to Human Diet and Nutrition T. Moffat and T. Prowse PART I: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON NUTRITION Chapter 2. Nutritional and Metabolic Influences on Human Brain Evolution W. R. Leonard , M. L.

Robertson and J. J. Snodgrass Chapter 3. Child Growth among Southern African Foragers in the Past S. Pfeiffer and L. Harrington Chapter 4. Infant and Young Child Feeding in Human Evolution D. W.

Sellen PART II: BREASTFEEDING AND BEYOND: NUTRITION THROUGHOUT THE LIFE COURSE Chapter 5. The Use of Stable Isotope Analysis to Determine Infant and Young Child Feeding Patterns T. L. Dupras Chapter 6. A Community in Transition: Deconstructing Breastfeeding Trends in Gibraltar, 1955-96 L. A. Sawchuk , E. K.

Bryce and S. D. A. Burke PART III: FOOD INSECURITY AND MALNUTRITION Chapter 7. Dietary Diversity, Dietary Transitions and Childhood Nutrition in Nepal: Questions of Methodology and Practice T. Moffat and E. Finnis Chapter 8. Responses to a Food Crisis and Child Malnutrition in the Nigerien Sahel R.

E. Casiday , K. R. Hampshire , C. Panter-Brick and K. Kilpatrick PART IV: NUTRITIONAL FACTORS IN GROWTH AND DISEASE Chapter 9. Growth, Morbidity, and Mortality in Antiquity: A Case Study from Imperial Rome T. Prowse , S.

Saunders , C. Fitzgerald , L. Bondioli and R. Macchiarelli Chapter 10. Examining Nutritional Aspects of Bone Loss and Fragility across the Life Cycle in Bioarchaeology S. C. Agarwal and B. Glencross Chapter 11.

Obesity - An Emerging Epidemic: Temporal trends in North America P. T. Katzmarzyk PART V: CONCLUSION Chapter 12. Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Back to the Future T. Prowse and T. Moffat Contributors Glossary Index.