Should We Eat Meat?

Preface ix

1 Meat in Nutrition 3

Meat Eating and Health: Benefits and Concerns 4

Meat and its nutrients 6

Meat as a source of food energy 11

High-quality protein and human growth 17

Carnivory and civilizational diseases 20

Diseased meat 24

2 Meat in Human Evolution 31

Hunting Wild Animals: Meat in Human Evolution 33

Primates and hominins 35

Meat consumption during the Paleolithic period 39

Extinct...