Jonathan C. K. Wells

The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Integrates medical and evolutionary data on the role of body fat in human biology, including the current obesity epidemic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9780521884204
• ISBN-10: 0521884209
• Artikelnr.: 26572065

Autorenporträt

Jonathan C. K. Wells is a Reader in Pediatric Nutrition at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Child Health. He conducts research on pediatric energetics and body composition, using anthropological and evolutionary approaches to inform biological understanding.

Inhaltsangabe

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.