The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to ↓ More info below ↓ Our Human Evolution Learning Playlist: We can track our history of eating just about anything back through the fossil record and see the impact it’s had on our evolution. Throughout time, part of the secret to our success as a species has been our early - and sometimes fatal - experimentation with food.  Special thanks to Jack Byrley (), Fabrizio de Rossi () and Julio Lacerda () for providing us with excellent illustrations for this episode! Additionally, big thanks to Carol Ward for providing us with images of KNM-ER 1808 for this episode! Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: