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Dietary Evolution

Dietary Evolution is the academic concept referring to the gradual transformation in food acquisition, processing, and consumption behaviors in human ancestors over evolutionary time, distinguished by its focus on adaptive shifts in diet-related anatomy, physiology, and technology within the broader study of human evolution.

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Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation

George H. Perry, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Katrina G. Claw et al. · Nature Genetics · 2007 · 1.5K citations

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Catching fire: how cooking made us human

Choice Reviews Online · 2010 · 881 citations

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The Food-sharing Behavior of Protohuman Hominids

Glynn Ll. Isaac · Scientific American · 1978 · 788 citations

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Diet and snake venom evolution

Jennifer C. Daltry, Wolfgang Wüster, Roger S. Thorpe · Nature · 1996 · 681 citations

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Hadza Women's Time Allocation, Offspring Provisioning, and the Evolution of Long Postmenopausal Life Spans

Kristen Hawkes, Jerome O’Connell, Nicholas Jones · Current Anthropology · 1997 · 668 citations

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  1. FE
    Frederick E. Grine

    Stony Brook University, United States

    8 publications · 701 citations

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  2. ZA
    Zeresenay Alemseged

    University of Chicago, United States

    6 publications · 702 citations

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  3. WR
    William R. Leonard

    Northwestern University, United States

    6 publications · 441 citations

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  4. RW
    Richard W. Wrangham

    Harvard University, United States

    6 publications · 1.7K citations

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  5. MP
    Michael P. Richards

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    6 publications · 1K citations

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Institutions

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    16 h-index

    51 publications

    2.9K citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    16 h-index

    30 publications

    2.6K citations

  3. Stony Brook University

    Stony Brook, United States

    15 h-index

    23 publications

    1.8K citations

  4. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    13 h-index

    16 publications

    1.7K citations

  5. George Washington University

    Washington, United States

    12 h-index

    18 publications

    1.6K citations

  6. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    10 h-index

    21 publications

    9.1K citations

  7. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    10 h-index

    16 publications

    3.4K citations

  8. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    9 h-index

    36 publications

    4.1K citations

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  1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 30 publications · 4.1K citations

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  2. Journal of Human Evolution

    JHE · 18 publications · 2K citations

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  3. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

    15 publications · 1.7K citations

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  4. Current Anthropology

    CA · 13 publications · 2.1K citations

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  5. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 11 publications · 1.8K citations

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