The Nature of Nutrition: A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity

by Stephen J. Simpson and David Raubenheimer

Book Overview

Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for nutrients determines whether wild animals thrive, how populations evolve and decline, and how ecological communities are structured. The Nature of Nutrition is the first book to address nutrition's enormously complex role in biology, both at the level of individual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691145652
• ISBN13: 9780691145655
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"