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Human adaptation and accommodation

A. Roberto Frisancho 1939- A. Roberto Frisancho 1939-

Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press c1993

Localização: IB - Instituto de Biociências    (QP82 F917h )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Human adaptation and accommodation
  • Autor: A. Roberto Frisancho 1939-
  • A. Roberto Frisancho 1939-
  • Assuntos: Adaptation (Physiology); Human beings -- Effect of environment on; ADAPTAÇÃO PSICOLÓGICA; ADAPTAÇÃO FISIOLÓGICA; Adaptation, Physiological; Environment
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Descrição: Principles and definitions -- Study of human adaptation -- Thermoregulation -- Principles of temperature regulation -- Acclimation and acclimatization to hot climates: native and nonnative populations -- Thermoregulation and ac climation to coldstress -- Acclimatization to cold environments: native and nonnative populations -- Skin color and adaptation to solar radiation -- Biological responses, acclimatization to solar radiation and evolution of popu lation skin color 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 -- Adultacclimatization, developmental acclimatization and the high-altitude native -- Prenatal and postnatal growth and development at high altitude -- Accommodation to energy variability -- Accommod ation to the energy demands of pregnancy --Accommodation to the energy demands of lactation -- Accommodation to acute and chronic malnutrition during growth (cont) 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 -- Conversionfactors for measurements used in the biological sciences -- Conversion factors
  • Editor: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: c1993
  • Formato: ix, 532 p. ill. 26 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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