Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Human fatness in broad context
- 3 Proximate causes of lipid deposition and oxidation
- 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 hominin evolution
- 9 Adiposity in human evolution
- 10 The evolution of human obesity
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Human fatness in broad context
- 3 Proximate causes of lipid deposition and oxidation
- 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 hominin evolution
- 9 Adiposity in human evolution
- 10 The evolution of human obesity
- References
- Index
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- The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body FatnessThrift and Control, pp. 363 - 382Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009