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Why Geese Don't Get Obese (and We Do): How Evolution's Strategies for Survival Affect Our Everday Lives - Hardcover
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.
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"Eric Widmaier demystifies the body's metabolic processes and other subjects in his lively new book of popular science."--"Cleveland Plain Dealer"
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An Entertaining and Educational Audiobook!!
In Why Geese Don’t Get Obese, Eric P. Widmaier describes the astonishing ways humans and other creatures have adapted to various environmental challenges in order to survive. Surprising examples, a sense of humor, and some serious science make this a delightful look at living things through the spectacles of a physiologist.
In Why Geese Don’t Get Obese, Eric P. Widmaier describes the astonishing ways humans and other creatures have adapted to various environmental challenges in order to survive. Surprising examples, a sense of humor, and some serious science make this a delightful look at living things through the spectacles of a physiologist.
· What drives people and animals to eat?
· What accounts for different appetites?
· How come breathing at high altitudes is easy for birds and difficult for most humans?
· Why do many animals, including humans, have two sets of sensory organs?
· Why do humans get the bends and dolphins don’t?
"Birds do it, bees do it--even shrews do it--but if we humans consumed our body weight in food every day, we’d all qualify as blimps in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. So why can’t we eat 1,000 cheeseburgers a day? Eric P. Widmaier explains all this and more in Why Geese Don’t Get Obese, a physiologist’s reader-friendly view of evolutionary differences." --Publishers Weekly
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- PublisherW.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0716731479
- ISBN 13 9780716731474
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