Contents
1. The Cull of the Wild / Nina L. Etkin
Selection
2. Agriculture and the Acquistion of Medicinal Plant Knowledge / Michael H. Logan and Anna R. Dixon
3. Ambivalence to the Palatability Factors in Wild Food Plants / Timothy Johns
4. Wild Plants as Cultural Adaptations to Food Stress / Rebecca Huss-Ashmore and Susan L. Johnston
Physiologic Implications of Wild Plant Consumption
5. Pharmacologic Implications of "Wild" Plants in Hausa Diet / Nina L. Etkin and Paul J. Ross
6. Wild Plants as Food and Medicine in Polynesia / Paul Alan Cox
7. Characteristics of "Wild" Plant Foods Used by Indigenous Populations in Amazonia / Darna L. Dufour and Warren M. Wilson
8. The Health Significance of Wild Plants for the Siona and Secoya / William T. Vickers
9. North American Food and Drug Plants / Daniel E. Moerman
Wild Plants in Prehistory
10. Interpreting Wild Plant Foods in the Archaeological Record / Frances B. King
11. Coprolite Evidence for Prehistoric Foodstuffs, Condiments, and Medicines / Heather B. Trigg, Richard I. Ford, John G. Moore, and Louise D. Jessop
Plants and Nonhuman Primates
12. Nonhuman Primate Self-Medication with Wild Plant Foods / Kenneth E. Glander
13. Wild Plant Use by Pregnant and Lactating Ringtailed Lemurs, with Implications for Early Hominid Foraging / Michelle L. Sauther
Epilogue
14. In Search of "Keystone Societies" / Brien A. Meilleur
Contributors
Botanical Index
Topical Index