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The Quest for Food : A Natural History of Eating
The Quest for Food: A Natural History of Eating is a collection of essays that surveys eating through time, from the perspective of a biologist. The quest begins in prehistoric times with religion and the exploration of the connection between food and sex. This leads to an investigation of the deep...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The Quest for Food : A Natural History of Eating / edited by Harald Brüssow. |
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New York, NY :
Springer US
, 2007 Cham : Springer Nature |
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- Foreword
- A few glimpses of biological anthropology
- Basic concepts on eating
- The central carbon pathway
- De revolutionibus orbium metabolicorum
- Bioenergetics
- The beginning of biochemistry
- Early eaters
- Photosynthesis
- The acquisition of the atoms of life
- Nutritional interactions in the ocean: a microbial perspective
- Early steps in predation
- Increasing complexity
- Animals: enlarging the food space
- Eat or be eaten: Anatomy of the marine food chain
- Life histories between the land and the sea
- The war of the senses: the example of echolocation
- Herbivory
- Choosing food: to eat or not to eat
- A lion s share?- Going for our blood
- Going for our gut
- From gut to blood: the battle for iron
- An agro(-eco)nomical outlook: Feeding the billions
- Index.