Humans have domesticated plants and animals for agriculture for thousands of years. What is less well-known is that plants and the chemicals they produce for defense have also had a significant effect on human biology and evolution.
Join anthropologist Fatimah Jackson to discuss the fascinating story of co-evolution between plants and humans, and learn how the new field of epigenetics is helping us understand how these interaction over time have altered the course of human history.
This SciCafe took place at the Museum on December 4, 2013. Visit amnh.org/scicafe to view a schedule of upcoming SciCafe programs. To hear this program in full, download the podcast at http://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blog….
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This was very interesting. I mean the idea “you are what you eat” is quite old, but here it is explained in detail. It is very logic to me that what we eat has influence on us, it cannot really be otherwise.
It also seems logic to me that humans at a point started to domesticize plants and animals. That way they didn’t have to hunt and gather anymore, right? Or so must have been the plan when it happened.
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