Study of chemicals involved in the interactions of living organisms

With bitter herbs they shall eat it : chemical ecology and the origins of human diet and medicine / Timothy Johns.

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With bitter herbs they shall eat it : chemical ecology and the origins of human diet and medicine / Timothy Johns.