Life at the Extremes

Frances Ashcroft (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2000
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-255946-1 (ISBN)

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Man can only tolerate a limited range of environmental conditions, whereas other lifeforms thrive in the most intense conditions - in extreme heat or many, many leagues under the sea in utter darkness or deep in the middle of rocks. Why is this so? How do people survive extremes of heat, cold, depth and height? For the geneticist, inheritance is all. But for the physiologist, extremism is all. This book explores the limits to human survival and the physiological adaptations which enable us to exist under extreme conditions.

Frances Ashcroft is a professor of Physiology at Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College and the Royal Society. She divides her time between research on insulin (the hormone that controls the blood sugar level), teaching and writing books. She has experienced several of the extremes discussed in this book, but has yet to try spaceflight. This is her first work for the general reader.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.7.2000
Zusatzinfo	70 b/w illus, With index
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 240 mm
Gewicht	616 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Klinische Umweltmedizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
ISBN-10	0-00-255946-3 / 0002559463
ISBN-13	978-0-00-255946-1 / 9780002559461
Zustand	Neuware