Name: The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) (en Inglés)
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Author: Wells, Jonathan C. K.
ISBN: 9781108822596

portada The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jonathan C. K. Wells

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

394

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm

Peso

0.53 kg.

ISBN13

9781108822596

Categorías

Antropología
Evolución
Mamíferos

The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) (en Inglés)

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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.