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The evolutionary biology of human body fatness : thrift and control /
"This comprehensive synthesis of current medical and evolutionary literature addresses key questions about the role body fat plays in human biology. It explores how body energy stores are regulated, how they develop over the life-course, what biological functions they serve, and how they may ha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ;
58. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This comprehensive synthesis of current medical and evolutionary literature addresses key questions about the role body fat plays in human biology. It explores how body energy stores are regulated, how they develop over the life-course, what biological functions they serve, and how they may have evolved. There is now substantial evidence that human adiposity is not merely a buffer against the threat of starvation, but is also a resource for meeting the energy costs of growth, reproduction and immune function. As such it may be considered as important in our species evolution as other traits such as bipedalism, large brains, and long life spans and developmental periods. Indeed, adiposity is integrally linked with these other traits, and with our capacity to colonise and inhabit diverse ecosystems. It is because human metabolism is so sensitive to environmental cues that manipulative economic forces are now generating the current obesity epidemic"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 382 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-362) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511691355 9780511691843 051169184X 0511691351 1107211387 9781107211384 1282637169 9781282637160 9786612637162 6612637161 0511692471 9780511692475 0511690614 9780511690617 0511689136 9780511689130 |