&i;`Cohen has done his homework extraordinarily well, and the coverage of the biomedical, nutritional, demographic, and ethnographic literature baout foragers and low energy agriculturists is excellent .... As a scholarly summary it is without exception'&o;.
Images of the "primitive" and the "civilized"; behaviour and health; the evolution of human society; the history of infectious disease; changes in the human diet; health among contemporary hunter-gatherers; the evidence of prehistoric skeletons.