Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness - Thrift and Control

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Timely analysis of medical and evolutionary data to address the role body fat has played in human biology, including in the current obesity epidemic. Obesity researchers from human biologists and anthropologists to health professionals will benefit from this comprehensive evolutionary approach to examining human body composition.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan C. K Wells, Jonathan C. K. Wells, Jonathan C. K. (Institute of Child Health Wells, Wells Jonathan C. K.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108822596
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82259-6
• No. of pages: 394
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology; Cambridge Studies in Biologica
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Evolution, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Human biology