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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Human fatness in broad context
- Proximate causes of lipid deposition and oxidation
- The ontogenetic development of adiposity
- The life-course induction of adiposity
- The fitness value of fat
- The evolutionary biology of adipose tissue
- Adiposity in hominin evolution
- Adiposity in human evolution
- The evolution of human obesity.