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The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: The Brain and the Digestive System in Human and PrimateEvolutionAuthor(s): Leslie C. Aiello and Peter WheelerSource: Current Anthropology, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Apr., 1995), pp. 199-221Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation forAnthropological ResearchStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2744104Accessed: 30/01/2010 12:51

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Issue Table of ContentsCurrent Anthropology, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Apr., 1995), pp. 159-397Front MatterTesting Hypotheses About Recent Human Evolution From Skulls: Integrating Morphology, Function, Development, and Phylogeny [pp.159-197]Calendar [p.198]The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: The Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution [pp.199-221]Errata [p.222]Institutions [p.222]Savanna Ecology and Natural Bone Deposition: Implications for Early Hominid Site Formation, Hunting, and Scavenging [pp.223-260]Putting Power in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy: The Immigration and Naturalization Service at the Mexico-United States Border [pp.261-287]Prizes [p.288]Discussion and CriticismOn Dry Farming in Upper Mesopotamia [pp.289-290]On Klejn's Agenda for Theoretical Archaeology [pp.290-292]On Pigs in Subsistence Agriculture [pp.292-293]On the Earliest Occupation of Europe [pp.293-295]On Sex Ratio and Coital Rate: A Hypothesis Without Foundation [pp.295-298]Errors Corrected or Compounded? A Reply to Wilmsen [pp.298-305]

ReportsA Conversation With K. C. Chang [pp.307-325]"Traditional Culture" and "Folk Knowledge": Whither the Dialogue Between Western and Post-Soviet Anthropology? [pp.326-330]Stone Age Settlement in South-Eastern Ireland [pp.330-332]Syphilis, Misogyny, and Witchcraft in 16th-Century Europe [pp.333-337]Kuldara: Earliest Human Occupation in Central Asia in Its Afro-Asian Context [pp.337-346]Making First Farmers Younger: The West European Evidence [pp.346-353]The Neglected Ape [pp.353-354]At the Archaic/Modern Boundary of the Genus Homo: The Neandertals From Grotta Breuil [pp.355-366]Gender and the Academic Career in North American Anthropology: Differentiating Intramarket From Extramarket Bias [pp.366-380]

BooksThe Hunt for Human Origins [pp.381-384]Colonial Romance Among the Nuer [pp.384-385]Critique of the Anthropology of Religion [pp.385-389]Religion and Slave Rebellion in Bahia [pp.389-390]Medical Anthropology Today [pp.390-395]Books Received [pp.395-397]

Back Matter [pp.306-306]