The Quest for Food A Natural History of Eating /

• Main Author: Brüssow, Harald (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; History.; Food > Biotechnology.; Microbiology.; Anthropology.; Food Science.; History, general.

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...

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.