Could plant extracts have enabled hominins to acquire honey before the control of fire?

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 85, Issue , 2015, Pages 65-74

  Kraft, Thomas S ^a   Venkataraman, Vivek V ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis; Ethnobiology; Honey bee; Zoopharmacognosy

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ETHNOBOTANY; FIRE; HOMINID; HONEYBEE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PLANT EXTRACT;

APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; PAN;

PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOLOGY; APPETITE; BEE; DRUG EFFECTS; ETHNOBOTANY; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; HONEY; PHARMACOGNOSY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ETHNOBOTANY; HOMINIDAE; HONEY; PHARMACOGNOSY; PLANT EXTRACTS;

EID: 84937967787     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.05.010     Document Type: Article

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