The chemical ecology of human ingestive behaviors

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 28, Issue , 1999, Pages 27-50

  Johns, Timothy ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Diet; Fatty acids; Medicine; Phytochemicals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003373730     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.28.1.27     Document Type: Article

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