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Fall 2025 Lecture Upper DivisionData from last updated 2/18/2026
Fall 2025
Fall 2025 Instructors:
This course will survey humans evolving relationship with food over the last few million years; from our Plio-pleistocene origins (foraging) through the origins of agriculture to modern industrial food production.
Learning Outcomes1Explain "the human diet," its evolution, and its range of variation.
2Summarize the role that dietary studies have played in the development of anthropological and biological theory.
3Identify primate dietary adaptations and explain how these adaptive traits inform human evolution studies.
4Describe major dietary issues faced by humans today.
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