New perspectives on taste and primate evolution: The dichotomy in gustatory coding for perception of beneficent versus noxious substances as supported by correlations among human thresholds

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 342-348

  Hladik, Claude Marcel ^a,c   Pasquet, P ^b   Simmen, B ^a  

^a Université Diderot Paris 7   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Primate taste dichotomy; Sodium chloride; Sugars; Tannins; Taste coding; Taste perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIMATE; STEREOTYPY; TASTE; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIETARY SUCROSE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; HYDROLYZABLE TANNINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PRIMATES; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASTE; TASTE THRESHOLD;

EID: 0036194508     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10046     Document Type: Article

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