The chemical ecology approach to modern and early human use of medicinal plants

Testing the ‘plant domestication-reduced defense’ hypothesis in blueberries: the role of herbivore identity

(2018) Johnattan Hernandez-Cumplido et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Contrasting consequences of plant domestication for the chemical defenses of leaves and seeds in lima bean plants

(2018) J. Gwen Shlichta et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Bioactivities of decoctions from Plectranthus species related to their traditional use on the treatment of digestive problems and alcohol intoxication

(2018) Elsa Brito et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

Pleistocene animal communities of a 1.5 million-year-old lake margin grassland and their relationship to Homo erectus paleoecology

(2018) Neil T. Roach et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Grass leaves as potential hominin dietary resources

(2018) Oliver C.C. Paine et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

How mammals stay healthy in nature: the evolution of behaviours to avoid parasites and pathogens

(2018) Benjamin L. Hart et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Exotic species as models to understand biocultural adaptation: Challenges to mainstream views of human-nature relations

(2018) Aline Dourado Sena Gama et al.   PLoS One

The faunal remains from Bundu Farm and Pniel 6: Examining the problematic Middle Stone Age archaeological record within the southern African interior

(2018) Jarod M. Hutson   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: Food, medicine and raw materials

(2018) Karen Hardy   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evolutionary ethnobiology and cultural evolution: opportunities for research and dialog

(2018) Flávia Rosa Santoro et al.   Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Middle Pleistocene hominin behavior at the 700ka Acheulean site of la Noira (France)

(2018) Bruce L. Hardy et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Plant domestication decreases both constitutive and induced chemical defences by direct selection against defensive traits

(2018) Xoaquín Moreira et al.   Scientific Reports

Pharmacogenomic assessment of herbal drugs in affective disorders

(2018) Swati Sahoo et al.   BIOMEDICINE & PHARMACOTHERAPY

Dietary versatility of Early Pleistocene hominins

(2018) Tina Lüdecke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Background to Neanderthal presence in Western Mediterranean Europe

(2018) José S. Carrión et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

River-fed wetland palaeovegetation and palaeoecology at the HWK W site, Bed I, Olduvai Gorge

(2018) R.M. Albert et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Plant Flavonoid Content Modified by Domestication

(2017) Manuel Chacón-Fuentes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

The taste of heat: How humoral qualities act as a cultural filter for chemosensory properties guiding herbal medicine

(2017) Matthias S. Geck et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus

(2017) Laura S. Weyrich et al.   NATURE

Fine-tuning the ‘plant domestication-reduced defense’ hypothesis: specialist vs generalist herbivores

(2017) Mickaël D. P. Gaillard et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Self-medication by orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus) using bioactive properties of Dracaena cantleyi

(2017) H. C. Morrogh-Bernard et al.   Scientific Reports

Why do people use exotic plants in their local medical systems? A systematic review based on Brazilian local communities

(2017) Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros et al.   PLoS One

Availability, diversification and versatility explain human selection of introduced plants in Ecuadorian traditional medicine

(2017) G. Hart et al.   PLoS One

What Do We Study in Evolutionary Ethnobiology? Defining the Theoretical Basis for a Research Program

(2016) Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Diet and environment 1.2 million years ago revealed through analysis of dental calculus from Europe’s oldest hominin at Sima del Elefante, Spain

(2016) Karen Hardy et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Diet and environment 1.2 million years ago revealed through analysis of dental calculus from Europe’s oldest hominin at Sima del Elefante, Spain

(2016) Karen Hardy et al.   Science of Nature

Can organoleptic properties explain the differential use of medicinal plants? Evidence from Northeastern Brazil

(2015) Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

Coevolution can explain defensive secondary metabolite diversity in plants

(2015) Michael P. Speed et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Neanderthal use of plants and past vegetation reconstruction at the Middle Paleolithic site of Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia, Spain)

(2015) I. Esteban et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

The Bad Taste of Medicines: Overview of Basic Research on Bitter Taste

(2013) Julie A. Mennella et al.   CLINICAL THERAPEUTICS

Bioprospecting: Evolutionary implications from a post-olmec pharmacopoeia and the relevance of widespread taxa

(2013) Marco Leonti et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

Patterns of medicinal plant use by inhabitants of Brazilian urban and rural areas: A macroscale investigation based on available literature

(2013) Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

Famine Foods of Brazil’s Seasonal Dry Forests: Ethnobotanical and Nutritional Aspects

(2012) Viviany Teixeira do Nascimento et al.   ECONOMIC BOTANY

The co-evolutionary perspective of the food-medicine continuum and wild gathered and cultivated vegetables

(2012) Marco Leonti   GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP EVOLUTION

New strategies for drug discovery in tropical forests based on ethnobotanical and chemical ecological studies

(2012) Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus

(2012) Karen Hardy et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Phylogenies reveal predictive power of traditional medicine in bioprospecting

(2012) C. H. Saslis-Lagoudakis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pharmacogenomics of CYP2D6: Molecular Genetics, Interethnic Differences and Clinical Importance

(2011) Lay Kek Teh et al.   Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics

Functional foods with digestion-enhancing properties

(2011) Marco Valussi   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCES AND NUTRITION

Quantitative methods in ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology: Considering the overall flora—Hypothesis testing for over- and underused plant families with the Bayesian approach

(2011) Caroline S. Weckerle et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

Insights into the search for new drugs from traditional knowledge: An ethnobotanical and chemical–ecological perspective

(2011) Cecília de Fátima Castelo Branco Rangel de Alm et al.   PHARMACEUTICAL BIOLOGY

Chemical ecology in coupled human and natural systems: people, manioc, multitrophic interactions and global change

(2010) Doyle McKey et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

The Inclusion and Selection of Medicinal Plants in Traditional Pharmacopoeias—Evidence in Support of the Diversification Hypothesis

(2010) Nélson Leal Alencar et al.   ECONOMIC BOTANY

The resource availability hypothesis revisited: a meta-analysis

(2010) María-José Endara et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Can the Apparency Hypothesis explain the selection of medicinal plants in an area of caatinga vegetation? A chemical perspective

(2009) Nélson Leal Alencar et al.   Acta Botanica Brasilica

Bitter taste perception in Neanderthals through the analysis of the TAS2R38 gene

(2009) C. Lalueza-Fox et al.   Biology Letters

Supertasting and PROP Bitterness Depends on More Than the TAS2R38 Gene

(2008) John E. Hayes et al.   CHEMICAL SENSES

Systematic polymorphism analysis of the CYP2D6 gene in four different geographical Han populations in mainland China

(2008) Shengying Qin et al.   GENOMICS