Anthropologist links honey to human evolution

One UNLV researcher says that contrary to what many think, meat may not have been the most important food in human evolution.

UNLV nutritional anthropologist and visiting assistant professor Alyssa Crittenden recently published an article that explores the evolution of the human diet and poses questions about what humans are biologically designed to eat based on evolutionary past.

The publication, entitled “How Honey Made Us Human,” published in the December edition of the Food and Foodways journal, explores the importance of honey consumption in human evolution.

Crittenden’s research focuses on the history of what humans eat, evolution and the nutritional effects on reproduction and social behavior.

She travels to Tanzania annually to study and work among the Hadza, one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes on earth.

“[The Hadza are] by no means a model of a fossil population,” Crittenden said. “They live a lifestyle that characterizes a large part of human history.”...

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