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Most delicious poison : the story of nature's toxins from spices to vices / Noah Whiteman.

by Whiteman, Noah.

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Little, Brown Spark, 2023.

Phytochemicals.

Botanical chemistry.

9780316386579 (hc.)

295 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Based on cutting-edge science in the fields of evolution, chemistry, and neuroscience, 'Most Delicious Poison' reveals the origins of toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes, and even some animals, the mechanisms that animals evolved to overcome them, and how a co-evolutionary arms race made its way into the human experience. You will never look at a houseplant, mushroom, fruit, vegetable, or even the last 500 years of human history, the same way again.

Noah Whiteman is an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Professor of Integrative Biology and of Molecular and Cell Biology. At Berkeley, he is also affiliated with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Center for Computational Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Jepson and University Herbaria, and Essig Museum of Entomology. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 to write Most Delicious Poison and lives in Oakland.

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