Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-132) and index.
Defining important concepts --Molecular mechanisms of genetic variation linked to diet --Essential nutrients and genomic integrity: developmental and degenerative correlates --Nutrients and cerebral function in human evolution --The evolution of micronutrient metabolism --Evolved refinement of the human lifecycle based on nutritional criteria --The evolution of human disease --Contemporary dietary patterns that work: the Mediterranean diet --Some non-micronutrient essential and nonessential nutrients with molecular and possible evolutionary impact --Natural food toxins and the human diet --Nutrigenomics --The evolution of protein function --Leading edge laboratory tools in nutrigenomics and human evolutionary studies.