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9780006551256
Life at the Extremes : The Science of Survival
ISBN 10: 0006551254 / 0-00-655125-4
ISBN 13: 9780006551256
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN 13: 9780006551256
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Publication Date: 2001
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How do people survive extremes of heat, cold, depth and height? For the geneticist inheritance is all. But for the physiologist extremism is all. This explores the limits to human survival and the physiological adaptations which enable us to exist.
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