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Author Lesnik, Julie J., author.

Title Edible insects and human evolution / Julie J. Lesnik
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 184 pages) : illustrations
Series Florida scholarship online
Florida scholarship online
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project MUSE, viewed January 10, 2019)
Subject Entomophagy.
Edible insects.
Food habits.
Human evolution.
Feeding Behavior
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Edible insects
Entomophagy
Food habits
Human evolution
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813052359
0813052351
0813065089
9780813065083
0813053773
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