Lisa Jansz
Lisa Janz
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Trent University
How do humans decide what to eat? For many decades we have modelled our understanding of hunter-gatherer
diets on the idea that calories were the driving force behind diet choice and that a broad spectrum diet was
necessarily a symptom of population packing or environmental degradation. While this model of diet choice is
still a robust measure, its application seems increasingly tenuous with regard to the baseline changes in human
hunting strategies that preceded the adoption of agriculture. Here, we will look at human adaptations to the Gobi
Desert of Mongolia and China as a means of untangling the complex relationship between evolutionary ecology,
environmental constraints, caloric intake, nutrient balancing and socially-mediated diet choice.
Centre for Society, Technology and Development (STANDD)
standd.anthro [at] mcgill.ca
Friday, February 26th, 2016
12:30-2:00pm
Peterson Hall, Room 116
3460 McTavish Street
Lunch/Refreshments provided
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