Food and Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Food and Evolution write by Marvin Harris. This book was released on 2009-01-28. Food and Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An unprecedented interdisciplinary effort suggests that there is a systematic theory behind why humans eat what they eat.
Catching Fire
Catching Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catching Fire write by Richard Wrangham. This book was released on 2010-08-06. Catching Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labour. As our ancestors adapted to using fire, humans emerged as "the cooking apes". Covering everything from food-labelling and overweight pets to raw-food faddists, Catching Fire offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. "This notion is surprising, fresh and, in the hands of Richard Wrangham, utterly persuasive ... Big, new ideas do not come along often in evolution these days, but this is one." -Matt Ridley, author of Genome
Nutrition and Evolution
Nutrition and Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nutrition and Evolution write by Michael Crawford. This book was released on 1989. Nutrition and Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dinner with Darwin
Dinner with Darwin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dinner with Darwin write by Jonathan Silvertown. This book was released on 2017-09-05. Dinner with Darwin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of crepes of course, but they also each have an evolutionary purpose. Eggs, seeds (from which flour is derived by grinding) and milk are each designed by evolution to nourish offspring. Everything we eat has an evolutionary history. Grocery shelves and restaurant menus are bounteous evidence of evolution at work, though the label on the poultry will not remind us of this with a Jurassic sell-by date, nor will the signs in the produce aisle betray the fact that corn has a 5,000 year history of artificial selection by pre-Colombian Americans. Any shopping list, each recipe, every menu and all ingredients can be used to create culinary and gastronomic magic, but can also each tell a story about natural selection, and its influence on our plates--and palates. Join in for multiple courses, for a tour of evolutionary gastronomy that helps us understand the shape of our diets, and the trajectories of the foods that have been central to them over centuries--from spirits to spices. This literary repast also looks at the science of our interaction with foods and cooking--the sights, the smells, the tastes. The menu has its eclectic components, just as any chef is entitled. But while it is not a comprehensive work which might risk gluttony, this is more than an amuse bouche, and will leave every reader hungry for more.
The Evolution Diet
The Evolution Diet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evolution Diet write by J. S. B. Morse. This book was released on 2008-02. The Evolution Diet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
