Amid all the confusing fluctuations in dietary fashion to which Americans have been exposed since the 1960s, one recommendation has remained unchallenged. Beginning in the 1960s and until 2015 the Americans have been getting consistent dietary advice: fat, especially saturated fat, is

Thanks Peter for bringing this issue to your blog readers. Here are a couple of important points which you and/or your readers should address when evaluating Richard Wrangham’s hypothesis that the control of fire and subsequent consumption of cooked tubers represented an evolutionary

A year ago I blogged about Richard Wrangham’s book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (it’s a great book, and I recommend it). My main interest in the post was, what were the implications for the diet of our ancestors? And what are they for those of us who follow the Paleo Diet

I periodically get asked, what do I think about the controversy over Steven Pinker’s Better Angels? Truth is, I did not find anything particularly new in the book. For those of us interested in the role of war in social evolution most of the empirical material he goes over is quite fa

It’s been a while since my last update on the Paleo diet (perhaps a better name for it is ‘Post-Neolithic diet’). Here are the links to previous blogs on this theme: http://socialevolutionforum.com/2012/08/23/an-update-on-my-so-called-paleo-diet/ http://socialevolutionforum.com/