Food in an evolutionary context: insights from mother's milk.

摘要: In the emergence of diverse animal life forms, food is most insistent and pervasive environmental pressures. As sciences begin to understand organisms in genomic detail, evolutionary perspectives provide compelling insights into results these dynamic interactions between consumer. Such an perspective particularly needed today face unprecedented capabilities alter supply. What should we change? Answering this question for production, safety sustainability will require a much more detailed understanding complex interplay humans their food. Many that grow, produce, process consume as foods naturally evolved adaptations part avoid being eaten. Crop breeding processing have been tools convert overtly toxic antinutritious commodities are safe eat. Now challenge enhance nutritional quality thereby contribute improving human health. We posit Rosetta stone nourishment mammalian lactation 'mother's milk'. The milk mother produces her young complete comprehensive diet. Moreover, capacity mammary gland remarkable bioreactor synthesise milk, infant utilise reflects 200 million years symbiotic co-evolution producer Here present emerging transdisciplinary research 'decoding' mother's from other mammals. further discuss how important implications science