With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It: Chemical Ecology and the Origins of Human Diet and Medicine by Timothy Johns
With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It: Chemical Ecology and the Origins of Human Diet and Medicine
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Timothy Johns
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With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It: Chemical Ecology and the Origins of Human Diet and Medicine

Timothy Johns

356 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
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Focusing on the domestication of the potato, the author considers the evolution of the human use of plants, the ways in which humans obtain foods from among the many poisons and the consequences of this history for understanding the basis of the h...

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