Seed to civilization; the story of man's food [by] Charles B. Heiser, Jr.
Material type: TextSeries: A Series of books in biologyPublication details: San Francisco, W. H. Freeman [1973]Description: xii, 243 p. illus. 23 cmISBN:- 0716705931
- 071670594X (pbk.)
- 630/.9
- S421 .H4
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Bibliography: p. [228]-236.
WAR, NEWBERY,
The origin of agriculture -- Seeds, sex, and sacrifice -- We are what we eat -- Meat: the luxury food -- Grasses: the staff of life -- Poor man's meat: the legumes -- The starchy staples -- Man's most useful tree: the coconut -- Other plants for food, beverage, and spice -- Evolution and breeding of man's domesticates -- Let them eat cake?