Robert > I am reading the book as well, and I don't see them  
presenting it as a paleo diet -- just a low-carb, high-fat diet.

Well, they're sort of doing what Taubes and a few others have done  
(the Eades for example): they start with the premise that we ought to  
eat like our ancestors.  (Chapter 2 is titled "Low Carbohydrate  
Lessons from Aboriginal Cultures.")

I believe they made the jump from the fact that the Masai use dairy to  
the idea that it's good for all low carbers.

Anyway, like Taubes, they only got half of the equation right.  Low  
carb is necessary for those with what Volek and Phinney call  
"carbohydrate intolerance."  But, even though they begin with the idea  
that we should eat like a caveman, they decidedly do not follow the  
conclusion to its logical end and have us avoids classes of foods our  
ancestors would have found unrecognizable.  Avoid metobolic syndrome,  
check.  That gets you half way there.  Next step is to avoid  
autoimmune disease.  Volek and Phinney take a few more tentative steps  
in that direction than Taubes, but not nearly enough IMO.

Jim