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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Quest for Food
    sub title: A Natural History of Eating
  name:
    name part: Brüssow, Harald.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 870 p. 207 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The Quest for Food: A Natural History of Eating is a collection of essays that surveys eating through time, from the perspective of a biologist. The quest begins in prehistoric times with religion and the exploration of the connection between food and sex. This leads to an investigation of the deep links between food and culture, exploring the basic question of "what is eating?" The second section embarks on a biochemistry-oriented journey tracing the path of a food molecule through the central carbon pathway until it is decomposed into CO2, H2O and ATP. The third section delves into the evolution of eating systems, beginning with the elements of the primordial soup through the birth of single cell organisms such as bacteria and archea. We then follow this evolution in the fourth section through higher developed organisms: from the first organisms in the ocean to the ones on land. The next two sections explore the stories of food from an ecological, then behavioral viewpoint, leading the reader from animals to early hominids, and into human history. The final section takes apart an anthropocentric view of the world by presenting man as prey for the oldest predators: microbes. The text closes with an agronomical outlook on how to feed the billions. The goal of The Quest for Food is to catalyze discussions between scientists working in food science, and those in biological and biomedical research. About the Author: Harald Brüssow is a Senior Research Scientist at Nestle Research Centre's Nutritional Health Department, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
  table of contents: Foreword -- A few glimpses of biological anthropology -- Basic concepts on eating -- The central carbon pathway -- De revolutionibus orbium metabolicorum -- Bioenergetics -- The beginning of biochemistry -- Early eaters -- Photosynthesis -- The acquisition of the atoms of life -- Nutritional interactions in the ocean: a microbial perspective -- Early steps in predation -- Increasing complexity -- Animals: enlarging the food space -- Eat or be eaten: Anatomy of the marine food chain -- Life histories between the land and the sea -- The war of the senses: the example of echolocation -- Herbivory -- Choosing food: to eat or not to eat -- A lion’s share?- Going for our blood -- Going for our gut -- From gut to blood: the battle for iron -- An agro(-eco)nomical outlook: Feeding the billions -- Index.
  note: by Harald Brüssow.
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Food
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Food Science
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: History, general
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  classification: TP248.65.F66
  classification: 641.3
  classification: 664
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-45461-6
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