With bitter herbs they shall eat it
Subtitle: chemical ecology and the origins of human diet and medicine
By: Timothy Johns.
Series: Arizona studies in human ecology
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Ethnobotany.; Prehistoric peoples -- Food.; Plant toxins.; Traditional medicine.; Chemical ecology.
Other titles: Chemical ecology and the origins of human diet and medicine.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-338) and index.
Series statement from label on page facing t.p.