Article
Major And Minor Causes Of Geophagy-Lithophagy In Animals And Humans
2024-12-11
Abstract excerpt
The analyzed data set on the problem of geophagy-lithophagy shows that the instinctive desire, preserved in many groups of animals and humans, to eat mineral-crystalline substances - products of hypergenic transformation of various rocks in the most general form, is a manifestation of evolutionarily conditioned universal way of regulating the material composition of the internal environment, as well as many biolog...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 42b3d475-dbc1-5f84-b861-f1608de44415
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202412.0972.v1
