It was with these understandings that 12 years ago Jonathan Haws
and I (Hockett and Haws, 2003) published our firstmanuscript on nutritional
ecology in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology as an alternative
to Primitive Economic Man. Nutritional ecology sets the nutritional
foundations under which populations may grow or decline based on
current research within the human nutritional sciences. It is inherently
holistic, recognizing fromthe beginning thatmany different factorsmay
be at play in shaping culture change (