Taste perception and feeding behavior in nonhuman primates and human populations

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 58-71

  Hladik, Claude Marcel ^a   Simmen, Bruno ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Forest populations; Salt perception; Sugar perception; Taste acuity; Taste aversion

Indexed keywords

HOMO SAPIENS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0030529193     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1996)5:2<58::AID-EVAN5>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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