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Main description:
This book explores the links between food and human cultural and physical evolution. Each chapter begins by summarizing the basic knowledge in the field, discusses recent research results, and confirms or challenges established concepts, inviting new insight and provoking new questions. This book catalyzes discussion between scientists working on one side in food science and on the other side in biological and biomedical research.
Contents:
A Nutritional Conditio Humana.- Some Aspects of Nutritional Biochemistry.- Bioenergetics.- The Evolution of Eating Systems.- The Ecology of Eating Systems.- Eating Cultures.- We as Food and Feeders.- An Agro(-Eco)nomical Outlook: Feeding the Billions.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Publication date: May, 2007
Pages: 888
Weight: 1491g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Biochemistry, Gastroenterology