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- Introduction
- Evolutionary perspectives of human nutrition
- Diversity of modern human nutritional strategies
- The evolution of Homo erectus
- Key features of human nutritional needs
- Talk overview
- Metabolic rates of selected tissues
- RMR vs. body mass in humans vs. mammals
- Brain weight vs. RMR
- Brain metabolism and resting metabolism
- Dietary and energetic correlates of size
- Diet quality vs. body weight in primates
- Relative brain size vs. diet quality
- Intestines proportions in humans and apes
- Day range variation - humans and other primates
- Home range vs. body weight in primates
- Correlates of home range size in modern species
- Predictors of home range size
- H. erectus - a major adaptive shift
- Rapid brain evolution with emergence of Homo
- Hominid body weight estimates: mid-sex averages
- Changes in body proportions
- Dietary and energetic implications
- Ecosystem structure
- Changes occurred with H. erectus
- Rapid initial spread of H. erectus from Africa
- Adaptive shifts in H. erectus
- Ecological variation in nutritional strategies
- Recent strategies for promoting diet quality
- Human diversity of diets
- BMI variation in different populations
- Prevalence of obesity in US adults: 1960 to 2008
- Changes in daily energy intake US adults
- Lifestyle and energy expenditure among Siberians
- Lifestyle correlates in the Yakut
- Lifestyle and dietary change among Siberians
- Changes in body fatness : Siberian Yakut
- Modern vs. traditional populations
- Energy expenditure in different populations
- Daily activity levels in different populations
- Shift from industrial to subsistence PALs
- Consequences of additional physical activity
- Physical activity in subsistence populations
- Modern life: a “shifting” energy balance
- Implications for understanding obesity
- Conclusions: evolutionary insights
- Acknowledgments
Topics Covered
- Relevance of Evolutionary Perspective for the Study of Nutrition
- Evolution of key human differences with the emergence & early evolution of Homo at ~2.0 mya
- Dietary regimes in traditional human societies
- Human Activity Patterns in Comparative Perspective
- Conclusions
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Leonard, W.R. (2020, August 16). What did humans evolve to eat? evolutionary perspectives on human nutritional health [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved December 3, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/YECV7285.Export Citation (RIS)
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- Prof. William R. Leonard has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.
What did humans evolve to eat? evolutionary perspectives on human nutritional health
A selection of talks on Metabolism & Nutrition
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