Format:
Online-Ressource
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Ill., graph. Darst.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2007 Springer eBook Collection. Chemistry and Materials Science Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780387454610
Content:
"The Quest for Food: A Natural History of Eating is a collection of essays that surveys eating through time, from the perspective of a biologist. The quest begins in prehistoric times with religion and the exploration of the connection between food and sex. This leads to an investigation of the deep links between food and culture, exploring the basic question of ""what is eating?"" The second section embarks on a biochemistry-oriented journey tracing the path of a food molecule through the central carbon pathway until it is decomposed into CO2, H2O and ATP. The third section delves into the evolution of eating systems, beginning with the elements of the primordial soup through the birth of single cell organisms such as bacteria and archea. We then follow this evolution in the fourth section through higher developed organisms: from the first organisms in the ocean to the ones on land. The next two sections explore the stories of food from an ecological, then behavioral viewpoint, leading the reader from animals to early hominids, and into human history. The final section takes apart an anthropocentric view of the world by presenting man as prey for the oldest predators: microbes. The text closes with an agronomical outlook on how to feed the billions. The goal of The Quest for Food is to catalyze discussions between scientists working in food science, and those in biological and biomedical research."
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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0-387-45461-6_BookFrontMatter_OnlinePDF.pdf; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 0-387-45461-6_1_OnlinePDF.pdf; A Nutritional Conditio Humana; A Few Glimpses on Biological Anthropology; An Early Venus and Breastfeeding: The Quest for Food and Sex as Driving Forces in Biology; Lady Europe's Liaison with a Bull: The Spread of Agriculture and Dairy Cultures; Basic Concepts on Eating; Raw Food for Thought; Thermodynamics Made Simple; Different Ways of Life; The Central Metabolic Pathway; A Few Words About ATP; 0-387-45461-6_2_OnlinePDF.pdf; Some Aspects of Nutritional Biochemistry
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The Central Carbon PathwayWhy is Glucose the Central Fuel Molecule?; Glycolysis; Variations on a Theme; Variant Glycolytic Intermediates; Lactate and Ethanol Fermentation: A Bit of Biotechnology; A Short Running Exercise; Liaison Dangereuse: Lactate, Cancer, and the Warburg Effect; Glucokinase at the Crossroad of Cellular Life and Death; Metabolic Networks; De Revolutionibus Orbium Metabolicorum; Revolutionary Histories; Mitochondria as Bacterial Endosymbionts; Pyruvate Dehydrogenase: The Linker Between Pathways; On the Value of Mutants; Why is the Citric Acid Cycle so Complicated?
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The Horseshoe TCA PathwayHistory Might Matter: An Argument on Chance and Necessity; Metabolic Crossroads in Ancient Landscapes: NAD or NADP---That's the Question; The Logic and Adaptive Value of Metabolic Cycles; 0-387-45461-6_3_OnlinePDF.pdf; Bioenergetics; Oxygen; The Origin of the Electrons and Biochemical Cycles: Anatomy of Complex II; Fumarate Reductase: The Dangers with Oxygen; The Handling of Molecular Oxygen; Social Feeding in Worms Explained by Oxygen Avoidance; Electrons; The Chemiosmotic Hypothesis; Anatomy of the Respiratory Chain; Cytochromes bc1 and b6f; Protons and ATP
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Proton Pumping and O2 ReductionPurposeful Wastefulness; Fiat Lux; The Smallest Motor of the World; 0-387-45461-6_4_OnlinePDF.pdf; The Evolution of Eating Systems; The Beginning of Biochemistry; A Soup as a Starter? The Origin of Biochemical Cycles; On Timescales in Biology; The RNA World; The Ribosome is a Ribozyme; Demise of the RNA World; Metabolic Control by Riboswitches; Let Others do the Job: Viral Relics of the RNA Worlds; Messengers from a Precellular DNA World?; The Importance of Being Lipid Enveloped; Early Eaters; What is at the Root?; Hydrogen and Bioenergetics; Methanogenesis
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MethanotrophsSulfur Worlds; Metagenomics and the Strange Appetite of Bacteria; Nutritional Interactions; Hydrothermal Vents as a Cradle of Life?; A Photosynthetic Beginning of Cellular Life?; Photosynthesis; One Cell for all Seasons: The Nutritional Flexibility of Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria; Cyanobacteria and the Invention of Oxygenic Photosynthesis; Getting Closer to the Water-Splitting Center: Photosystem II; Evolutionary Patchwork: Photosystem I; Speculations on the Origin of Photosynthesis; The Impact of Oxygen on the Evolution of Metabolisms on Earth; The Acquisition of the Atoms of Life
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The Easy Acquisitions: HOP
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780387303345
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Brüssow, Harald The quest for food New York, NY : Springer, 2007 ISBN 0387303340
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780387303345
Language:
English
Subjects:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science
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Medicine
Keywords:
Nahrung
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Ernährung
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Bioenergetik
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Geschichte
DOI:
10.1007/0-387-45461-6
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