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Ep 4. Into the wild: Diet tips from grasshoppers, spider monkeys & the orangutans of Borneo

EAT LIKE THE ANIMALS

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The Importance of Evolutionary Biology in Human Health and Nutrition

Evolutionary biology enables us to address the question of why things are the way that they are. Once you know why something is the way that it is, you can get a much stronger prediction as to how it will respond when it's in a different situation. Next time we're going to be looking not at animal food environments but human ones and the evolution of our own food systems with the appearance of fire and farming.

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