The evolutionary biology of human body fatness thrift and control

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Human fatness in broad context; 3. The proximate causes of fat deposition; 4. The ontogenetic development of adiposity; 5. The life-course induction of adiposity; 6. The fitness value of fat; 7. The evolutionary biology of adipose tissue; 8. Adipo...

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1. Verfasser: Wells, Jonathan C. K. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge u.a. Cambridge University Press c2010
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Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 58
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Zusammenfassung:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Human fatness in broad context; 3. The proximate causes of fat deposition; 4. The ontogenetic development of adiposity; 5. The life-course induction of adiposity; 6. The fitness value of fat; 7. The evolutionary biology of adipose tissue; 8. Adiposity in hominid evolution; 9. Adiposity in human evolution; 10. The evolution of obesity.
Beschreibung:Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-362) and index. - Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Human fatness in broad context; 3. The proximate causes of fat deposition; 4. The ontogenetic development of adiposity; 5. The life-course induction of adiposity; 6. The fitness value of fat; 7. The evolutionary biology of adipose tissue; 8. Adiposity in hominid evolution; 9. Adiposity in human evolution; 10. The evolution of obesity
Beschreibung:XI, 382 S
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ISBN:9780521884204
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