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Environmental Stress and Adaptational Responses: Consequences for Human Health Outcomes

Ralph M. Garruto
Michael A. Little
Charles A. Weitz

Sažetak

With the dramatic pace of modernization of the world’s population, human adaptation as a theoretical construct and paradigm will likely become a focal scientific issue involving scientists from many disciplinary areas during the 21st Century. Macro and micro environments are in rapid flux and human populations are exposed to rapid change. The concept of adaptation, at least in the field of biological anthropology and human biology, will likely remain tied to evolutionary processes and concepts of selection and fitness. In this paper, we discuss the theoretical constructs of adaptation and adaptability and select three current examples from our ongoing research that involve studies of adaptation and evolutionary processes in modernizing populations in different locations worldwide.

Ključne riječi

Hypoxic Stress; Altitude; HIF; Prion Diseases; Kuru; Co-Evolution; Reproduction

Hrčak ID:

5575

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/5575

Datum izdavanja:

15.12.2004.

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