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

· 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