Flavor in the context of ancestral human diets

Given that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution, to understand the evolutionary biology of human flavor perception we need to know what kinds of foods have been sufficiently important in the human past for natural selection to favor specific mechanisms for perceiving and d...

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Main Author: Richard Wrangham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fnint.2015.03.00009/full