Nutritional Chiefdom

Assessing Human Diet and Movement in the Tongan Maritime Chiefdom Using Isotopic Analyses

The rise of stratified societies fundamentally influences the interactions between status, movement, and food. Using isotopic analyses, we assess differences in diet and mobility of individuals excavated from two burial mounds located at the `Atele burial site on Tongatapu, the main island of the Kingdom of Tonga (c. 500 - 150 BP). The first burial mound (To-At-1) was classified by some archaeo...

From Chiefdom to State: toward an Integrative Theory of the Evolution of Polity

The evolution of the polity, particularly the transition of chiefdoms to states, has been the subject of considerable debate. In this article, the authors engage the discussion surrounding the meta-theoretical positions on the tempo of change, specifically whether states emerged grad ually from quantitative changes in chiefdom societies—gradualism—or if their appearance was the result of punctu...

NUTRITIONAL ECOLOGY Nutritional goals of wild primates

1. Primates meet their nutritional goals by prioritizing certain nutritional parameters when choosing the types and quantities of different foods. 2. There are five major models applied in primate nutritional ecology, each of which proposes that diet selection subserves a different primary nutritional goal: (i) energy maximization; (ii) nitrogen (protein) maximization; (iii) avoidance or regula...

Nutritional Genomics

Recent dynamic development of genetics and its adjacent fields of study on one hand open the so far unthinkable perspectives of the basic and clinical research but, on the other hand, it bears the risk of too one-sided "genocentric" view of pathogenesis of human diseases and, in general, of all biological processes. Nevertheles, more complex view and approach is needed in perspective of today's...

Nutritional epidemiology