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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog alternative "With bitter herbs they shall eat it".
- catalog contributor b10179830.
- catalog created "[1996]".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "[1996]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1996]".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-338) and index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 356 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0816510237 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0816516871 (paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Arizona studies in human ecology".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "[1996]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Tucson : University of Arizona Press,".
- catalog subject "613.2 20".
- catalog subject "Adaptation, Biological.".
- catalog subject "Anthropology, Cultural.".
- catalog subject "Chemical ecology.".
- catalog subject "Diet History.".
- catalog subject "Ethnobotany History.".
- catalog subject "Ethnobotany.".
- catalog subject "GN 476.73 J65o 1990".
- catalog subject "GN476.73 .J64 1996".
- catalog subject "Plant toxins.".
- catalog subject "Plants, Toxic.".
- catalog subject "Prehistoric peoples Food.".
- catalog subject "Traditional medicine.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The origins of human diet and medicine : chemical ecology / Timothy Johns.".
- catalog title "With bitter herbs they shall eat it".
- catalog type "text".