Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Homo"

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    • The Energetic Significance of Cooking 

      Carmody, Rachel Naomi; Wrangham, Richard W. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
      While cooking has long been argued to improve the diet, the nature of the improvement has not been well defined. As a result, the evolutionary significance of cooking has variously been proposed as being substantial or ...

    • The Evolution of Endurance Running and the Tyranny of Ethnography: A Reply to Pickering and Bunn (2007) 

      Lieberman, Daniel Eric; Bramble, Dennis M.; Raichlen, David A.; Shea, John J. (Elsevier, 2007)
      Endurance running (ER) poses a conundrum for paleoanthropologists. As summarized in Bramble and Lieberman (2004), human ER capabilities, which are unique among primates, either match or exceed those of mammals adapted for ...