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

by EricP.Widmaier (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $13.43

  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.