Evolutionary explanations for food preferences Flashcards
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Foley and Lee
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Umami = meat eating lead to a growth of human intelligence
2
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Finch and Stanford
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Umami = Eating meat allowed for humans to exploit new environments
3
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Gouldsbloom
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Umami = Archeological evidence to suggest that we have adapted our ways of living to eat meat
4
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Kendrick
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Umami = Those who eat meat have shorter life spans
5
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Denton
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Innate preferences to salt in many species
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Dudley et al
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Ants in salt-poor environements prefer salty environments to sugary ones. Also Scottish deer would like salt from the grit off roads in order to get an intake of salt
