The origins of human diet and medicine : chemical ecology / Timothy Johns.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:With bitter herbs they shall eat it
Arizona studies in human ecology.
Main Author: Johns, Timothy, 1950-
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1996]
Series:Arizona studies in human ecology.
Subjects:
Ethnobotany.
Prehistoric peoples > Food.
Plant toxins.
Traditional medicine.
Chemical ecology.
Ethnobotany > history.
Adaptation, Biological.
Anthropology, Cultural.
Diet > history.
Plants, Toxic.
Etnobotânica (história)
Antropologia cultural e social.
Dieta (história)
Folclore.
Physical Description:xviii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Government Document Book
Contents:
  • 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.