| Título : |
Human Adaptation and Accommodation |
| Tipo de documento: |
Libro |
| Autores: |
A.Roberto Frisancho, Autor |
| Mención de edición: |
Enlarged and Revised Edition of Human Adaptation |
| Editorial: |
Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press |
| Fecha de publicación: |
1993 |
| Número de páginas: |
x, 532 p. ; il. |
| ISBN/ISSN/DL: |
978-0-472-09511-7 |
| Idioma : |
Inglés (eng) |
| Clasificación: |
[BFA] Ciencias Naturales y Biológicas
|
| Palabras clave: |
Adaptación Fisiología humana Antropología biológica Medio ambiente |
| Clasificación: |
575.3 |
| Resumen: |
20120124018572 |
| Nota de contenido: |
Principles and definitions
- The study of human adaptation
Thermoregulation
- Principles of temperature regulation
- Acclimation and acclimatization to hot climates: native and nonnative populations
- Thermoregulation and acclimation to cold stress
- Acclimatization to cold environments: native and nonnative populations
Skin color and adaptation to solar radiation
- Biological responses, acclimatization to solar radiation, and evolution of population skin colorn differences
- Evolution of population skin color differences
Adaptation to high altitude
- Respiratory function and gas exchange in the lungs and tissues
- Cardiovascular system
- Biological effects and tolerance to high altitude
- Adult acclimatization, developmental acclimatization, and the high-altitude native
- Prenatal and postnatal growth and development at high altitude
Accommodation to energy variability
- Accommodation to the energy demands of pregnancy
- Accommodation to the energy demands of lactation
- Accommodation to acute and chronic malnutrition during growth
- Accommodation to experimental starvation and chronic undernutrition
- Accommodation to industrialization of dietary habits and disease expression
- Obesity: accommodation and adaptation to variability in dietary supply |
| Tema Principal / Disciplina : |
Biología |
| Link: |
https://www.bfa.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/id/18452 |
Human Adaptation and Accommodation / Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press (1993)
