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FEED your mind: The evolutionary roots of human food cognition

2025-04-30

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<p>Research on food cognition has largely overlooked that our modern food environment strongly differs from the environment in which our ancestors lived. When foraging for food in wild environments, our ancestors had to distinguish edible food resources from myriad inedible and potentially toxic entities. In contrast, in most cultures today, many decisions about food are made during a trip to the grocery store or...

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Literature Corpus work: 51994eef-8341-5835-9681-3ffb7a9b0b20
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/kb3s7_v2

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