Why some like it hot: food, genes, and cultural diversity

Introduction

Ch. 1. Discerning the histories encoded in our bodies

Ch. 2.

Searching for the ancestral diet

Did mitochondrial Eve and Java Man feast on the same foods?

Ch. 3. Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria

Ch. 4. The shaping and shipping away of Mediterranean cuisines

Ch . 5. Discovering why some don't like it hot

Is it a matter of taste?

Ch. 6. Dealing with migration headaches

Should we change places, diets, or genes?

Ch. 7. Rooting out the causes of disease

Why diabetes is so common among desert dwellers

Ch. 8

Reconnecting the health of the people with the health of the land

How Hawaiians are curing themselves.