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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
  • Chimie écologique
  • Ethnobotany
  • Plant toxins
  • Traditional medicine
  • Prehistoric peoples > Food
  • Chemical ecology
  • Adaptation, Biological
  • Anthropology, Cultural
  • Diet > history
  • Medicine, Traditional > history
  • Plants, Medicinal
  • Plants, Toxic
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