Why Geese Don't Get Obese (and We Do): How Evolution's Strategies for Survival Affect Our Everday Lives - Hardcover

Widmaier, Eric P.

 
9780716731474: Why Geese Don't Get Obese (and We Do): How Evolution's Strategies for Survival Affect Our Everday Lives

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Imagine being able to consume 250,000 calories (50 Christmas dinners) daily without gaining weight! If we had the metabolism of a shrew we could, and we would have to. In this text the author offers a physiologist's view of the features and abilities humans and other creatures have evolved to meet the seemingly impossible challenges of survival.

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Imagine being able to consume 250,000 calories (50 Christmas dinners) daily without gaining weight! If we had the metabolism of a shrew we could, and we would have to. In this text the author offers a physiologist's view of the features and abilities humans and other creatures have evolved to meet the seemingly impossible challenges of survival.

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9780716736493: Why Geese Don'T Get Obese (And We Do): How Evolution's Strategies for Survival Affect Our Everday Lives

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ISBN 10:  0716736497 ISBN 13:  9780716736493
Verlag: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1999
Softcover