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... ruminants possess the most efficient system for digesting tough fibrous materials such as grasses and straw . Their ... ruminant's extraordinary ability to digest cellulose was crucial to the relationship between humans and domesticated ...
... ruminants possess the most efficient system for digesting tough fibrous materials such as grasses and straw . Their ... ruminant's extraordinary ability to digest cellulose was crucial to the relationship between humans and domesticated ...
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... ruminants , natural selec- tion did not favor humans who had an ability to synthesize lactase after infancy . Yet genes for extending the period of lactase suf- ficiency into adulthood were present in very low frequencies as a result of ...
... ruminants , natural selec- tion did not favor humans who had an ability to synthesize lactase after infancy . Yet genes for extending the period of lactase suf- ficiency into adulthood were present in very low frequencies as a result of ...
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... ruminants . In all of these respects , China not only contrasts with India , but even more so with Europe , which is a region of rainfall agriculture and , until recently , of low population density . Rather than depend on ruminants for ...
... ruminants . In all of these respects , China not only contrasts with India , but even more so with Europe , which is a region of rainfall agriculture and , until recently , of low population density . Rather than depend on ruminants for ...
Contents
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
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