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How the diets of early humans explain our eating habits

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageThe size of the human brain had a great deal to do with the food choices of our ancestors.Shutterstock

Much attention is being given to what people ate in the distant past as a guide to what we should eat today. Advocates of the claimed palaeodiet recommend that we should avoid carbohydrates and load our plates with red meat and fat. Its critics,...

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