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 |
Clasificación: | [BFA] Ciencias Naturales y Biológicas
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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 |