Daily Archive: August 22, 2002

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Spaniards Quite Stringy, Even When Boiled

There’s a review of a food history book here, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food, with this illuminating excerpt: Fern�ndez-Armesto kicks off his chapter on food and symbolism with an enthusiastic discussion...

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Mitochondrial Eve Problems

The use of cellular mitochondria mutations that pinpoint an origin date and a common group of female ancestors for modern humans has run into a small problem. A group of Danish researchers have found...