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Edible insects and human evolution /Julie J. Lesnik.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 184 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813052359
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GN409 .E353 2018
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.

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