The origins of human diet and medicine : chemical ecology
Timothy Johns (Author)
"The domestication of the potato serves as the focus of this synthesis of ethnobotany and chemical ecology. Johns considers the evolution of the human use of plants, the ways in which humans obtain foods from among the myriad poisonous and unpalatable plants in the environment, and the consequences of this history for understanding the basis of the human diet."--Back cover
xviii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780816516872, 9780816510238, 0816516871, 0816510237
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A model of human chemical ecology
Biological adaptations for dealing with plant toxins
Technological methods of 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
Classification of traditional plant processing techniques
Traditional methods of plant detoxification
Originally published: With bitter herbs they shall eat it. ©1990
"First paperbound printing 1996."