| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-06-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 213 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.8 oz |
Publisher's Note
Why is it so easy to loose five pounds, but so difficult to loose the
next five or ten? As fun to read as it is informative, this book
provides the answer to this and other fascinating evolutionary questions
through a look at humans, nature and physiology.
Written in peppy prose and with just the right about of detail, "Why Geese Don't Get Obese" offers a physiologist's view of the features and abilities humans and other creatures have evolved to meet the seemingly impossible challenges of survival. 16 illustrations. NPR sponsorship.
Industry Reviews
This well-written, easy-to-read book discusses reasons for some aspects of human and animal physiology. Recent books on Darwinian medicine such as R.M. Neese and G.C. Williams's Why We Get Sick (Times Bks., 1994) and Margi Profet's Pregnancy Sickness (Addison-Wesley, 1997) deal with evolutionary reasons for disease and sickness. This book complements them by examining the evolution of normal human and animal physiology, why we work the way we do, and a few conditions where adaptations from our ancestors are not so useful in modern life, for example, diabetes, stress, and the obesity mentioned in the title. What really makes this book stand out are the lucid explanations of how scientific method observation, hypothesis, research, and testing is used to learn about human and animal physiology. For public and academic libraries. Margaret Henderson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Libs., NY
Donovan
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