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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wells, Jonathan C. K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 58.
Subjects:
Adipose tissues > Evolution.
Human evolution.
Obesity.
Adipose Tissue.
Biological Evolution.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Human fatness in broad context
  • The proximate causes of fat deposition
  • The ontogenetic development of adiposity
  • The life-course induction of adiposity
  • The fitness value of fat
  • The evolutionary biology of adipose tissue
  • Adiposity in hominid evolution
  • Adiposity in human evolution
  • The evolution of obesity.