This interdisciplinary course explores the evolution of the human diet utilizing a biocultural perspective. The complex interplay between our diet, biology, and culture is examined through energy acquisition, primate and hominin nutrition, the Agricultural Revolution and Industrialization on human health, food sustainability, and nutritional inequality through socioeconomic and gender lenses.
Prerequisites: For BIOL-BS, BIOL-MINR, and BIOE-BS students: BIOL 102; for all others: ANTH 101 or BIOL 102.
Outcomes: Students will identify the role food has played throughout the 6-7 million years of human evolution, and its significance in terms of climate change variability, evolutionary adaptations and contemporary inequality.
Prerequisites: For BIOL-BS, BIOL-MINR, and BIOE-BS students: BIOL 102; for all others: ANTH 101 or BIOL 102.
Outcomes: Students will identify the role food has played throughout the 6-7 million years of human evolution, and its significance in terms of climate change variability, evolutionary adaptations and contemporary inequality.