What did our ancestors eat?

Paleolithic nutrition : what did our ancestors eat ?

The Sealness of the Wilayah of al-Mahdi and the Specification of His Ancestors according to ibn Arabi and Some Commentators of Futuhat al-makkiyyah

The sealness of wilayah is one of the most important and challenging issues discussed by Muslim mystics, and has been discussed by the likes of Ibn ‘Arabi. Like other mystics, Ibn ‘Arabi divides wilayah into two types: absolute and limited. However, his ideas with regards to instances of absolute wilayah and limited wilayah diverge from the norm. Sometimes th...

Dietary-Aware Dining Table – Tracking What and How Much You Eat

We are what we eat. Our everyday food choices affect our long-term and short-term health. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a dietary-aware dining table that can track what and how much we eat. To enable automated food tracking, the dining table is augmented with two layers of weighting and RFID sensor surfaces to detect and recognize multiple, concurrent person-object interaction...

An Evolutionary Perspective on Food and Human Taste

The sense of taste is stimulated when nutrients or other chemical compounds activate specialized receptor cells within the oral cavity. Taste helps us decide what to eat and influences how efficiently we digest these foods. Human taste abilities have been shaped, in large part, by the ecological niches our evolutionary ancestors occupied and by the nutrients they sought. Early hominoids sought ...

Genomics Recapitulates History in Europe

Most of us know our families back a few generations but, beyond that, have little idea who our ancestors were or where they lived. Jumping further back, all of us alive today likely share most of our ancestors from 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. What happened between then and now? We’ve pieced together a broad picture of human kinship based on disciplines from archeology to linguistics to history. I...