Most Delicious Poison The Story of Nature's Toxinsfrom Spices to Vices [Audiobook] free ebook download.

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Date:	2024	Format:	M4B & MP3 @126 kbps	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	B0BXYJB742
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An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature's toxins and why we are attracted-and addicted-to them, in this "magisterial, fascinating, and gripping tour de force" (Neil Shubin).

Scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxglove leaf, a magic-mushroom cap, a marijuana bud, or an apple seed, and we find a bevy of strange chemicals. We use these to greet our days (caffeine), titillate our tongues (capsaicin), recover from surgery (opioids), cure infections (penicillin), mend our hearts (digoxin), bend our minds (psilocybin), calm our nerves (CBD), and even kill our enemies (cyanide). But why do plants and fungi produce such chemicals? And how did we come to use and abuse some of them?
Based on cutting-edge science in the fields of evolution, chemistry, and neuroscience, Most Delicious Poison reveals:
* The origins of toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes, and even some animals
* The mechanisms that animals evolved to overcome them
* How a co-evolutionary arms race made its way into the human experience

This perpetual chemical war not only drove the diversification of life on Earth, but also is intimately tied to our own successes and failures. You will never look at a houseplant, mushroom, fruit, vegetable, or even the past five hundred years of human history the same way again.

"Humans have benefitted for millennia from the wild variety of healing, intoxicating, delicious or stimulating toxins produced by the biological warfare that pervades the natural world. Whiteman provides a wonderful overview of the diversity and ubiquity of these drugs, giving us an inspiring, entertaining look at both the richness of nature and the clever ways humans-and many other species-have learned to exploit it."Edward Slingerland, author of Drunk

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