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With bitter herbs they shall eat it : chemical ecology and the origins of human diet and medicine / Timothy Johns.
- Title
- With bitter herbs they shall eat it : chemical ecology and the origins of human diet and medicine / Timothy Johns.
- Author
- Johns, Timothy, 1950-
- Publication
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1990.
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- Description
- xviii, 356 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book traces the history of biological and cultural methods of human subsistence. The text attempts to examine two distinct parts of the natural world, human and plant, by combining two academic disciplines, ethnobotany and chemical ecology. The author presents a theoretical model that offers more generalizable insights into the interactions of humans and plant chemicals. The model is developed primarily from the domestication of the potato and its implications.
- Series Statement
- Arizona studies in human ecology
- Uniform Title
- Arizona studies in human ecology
- Alternative Title
- Chemical ecology and the origins of human diet and medicine.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface -- A model of human chemical ecology -- Biological adaptations for dealing with plant toxins -- Technological methods for detoxification -- Domestication as a solution for dealing with plant toxins -- Human perception, cognition, and behavior in relation to plant chemicals -- Reconsidering the model of human chemical ecology -- Plant chemical defenses as determinants of the human diet -- The dietary basis for the origin of human medicine -- Appendix 1: Classification of traditional plant processing techniques -- Appendix 2: Traditional methods of plant detoxification.
- ISBN
- 0816510237 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^90031694^
- OCLC
- 21077182
- SCSB-9992237
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library