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Title:
Edible insects and human evolution / Julie J. Lesnik.
Author:
Lesnik, Julie J., author.
Publication Information:
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
Call Number:
GN409.5 .L47 2018
Abstract:
Edible Insects and Human Evolution investigates insects in the human diet from an evolutionary perspective. This book argues that insects were just as important as meat in the past and that today they offer a sustainable alternative to meat.
ISBN:
9780813056999

9780813064314
Physical Description:
xix, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction to entomophagy anthropology -- Understanding the ick factor -- Ethnographic examples of insect foraging -- Nutrition and reproductive ecology -- Insect eating in nonhuman primates -- Reconstructing the role of insects in diets of early hominins -- Edible insects and the genus homo -- The potential for future discover: testing hypotheses of edible insects -- Going forward: getting over our obsession with meat.
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