Food, Science, and the Human Body

Join an award-winning anthropologist for an exploration of the evolution of the human diet and its relationship to our bodies.

• By This Professor
• 01: Paleo Diets and the Ancestral Appetite
• 02: Our Hunter-Gatherer Past
• 03: Stones, Bones, and Teeth
• 04: Did Eating Meat Make Us Human?
• 05: Insects: The Other White Meat
• 06: Was the Stone Age Menu Mostly Vegetarian?
• 07: Cooking and the Control of Fire
• 08: The Neolithic Revolution
• 09: The Changing Disease-Scape
• 10: How Foods Spread around the World
• 11: The History of the Spice Trade
• 12: How Sugar and Salt Shaped World History
• 13: A Brief History of Bread
• 14: The Science and Secrets of Chocolate
• 15: Water: The Liquid of Life
• 16: Beer, Mead, and the Fun of Fermentation
• 17: Humanity's Love of Wine
• 18: Coffee: Love or Addiction?
• 19: The Roots of Tea
• 20: The Fizz on Soda
• 21: Food as Ritual
• 22: When People Eat Things That Aren't Food
• 23: Food as Recreational Drugs
• 24: Food as Medicine
• 25: The Coevolution of Genes and Diet
• 26: The Scoop on Poop
• 27: The Gut Microbiome
• 28: Brain Food
• 29: You Are What Your Mother Ate
• 30: Civilization: Diets and Diseases
• 31: What the World Is Eating
• 32: The Overnutrition Epidemic
• 33: World Poverty and Undernutrition
• 34: Should the World Eat Meat?
• 35: Should We Be Powered by Plants?
• 36: The Future of Food