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n. - Eating earth or clay or chalk.

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  • Anyway, there was a really good Nova? special on geophagy 5-6 years ago.
  • Never mind that geophagy was and probably still is practiced right here in the US of A.
  • Far from being a dysfunctional behavior, geophagy has evolved as a practice for maintaining health amongst chimpanzees.
  • In this particular study (1), to be published online this week in Springer’s journal Naturwissenschaften, geophagy increases the potency of ingested plants with...
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