CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: Discerning the Histories Encoded in Our Bodies -- CHAPTER TWO: Searching for the Ancestral Diet -- Did Mitochondrial Eve and Java Man Feast on the Same Foods? -- CHAPTER THREE: Finding a Bean for Your Genes and a Buffer Against Malaria -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Shaping and Shipping Away of Mediterranean Cuisines -- CHAPTER FIVE: Discovering Why Some Don't Like It Hot -- Is It a Matter of Taste? -- CHAPTER SIX: Dealing with Migration Headaches -- Should We Change Places, Diets, or Genes? -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Rooting Out the Causesof Disease -- Why Diabetes Is So Common Among Desert Dwellers -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Reconnecting the Health of the People with the Health of the Land -- How Hawaiians Are Curing Themselves -- SOURCES -- INDEX.