Dr. Gideon Hartman is offering a new Fall 2026 semester class, Anth 3560: The Evolution of Human Diet. Humans evaluate the quality of food through range of cues that involve all five senses: visual inspection, touch, smell, taste, and even sound. These sensual cues were inherited from our primate ancestors. How did the diet change through the evolution of the human lineage? How did diet shape us as humans? and how did humans shape diet through the course of time? These questions and many more related to culture, technology, and biology will be surveyed in this course and will finally lead us to the present and the feared future.

This class will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11am – 12:15pm in ITE119.