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Capacity for Work in the Tropics

Capacity for Work in the Tropics

Collins, K. J.
Roberts, Derek F.
Roberts, D. F.

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Series: Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium, Book 26

Medical ReferenceBiologyZoology

ISBN10: 0521118638
ISBN13: 9780521118637
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 20 2009
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Working capacity is the physiological key to understanding man's ability, in technically less advanced communities, to exploit his environment, and hence to understanding his role in the ecological balance. In this volume the knowledge of working capacity in tropical populations is reviewed in a series of illustrative papers. Topics cover the measurement of working capacity in populations: the functional consequences of malnutrition; growth, size and muscular efficiency; ethnic differences in working capacity; energy; expenditure and endemic disease; and energy flow in tropical ecosystems. These papers and their ensuing discussions lead to a series of recommendations on studies to be incorporated in the Decade of the Tropics research programme of the International Union of Biological Sciences.

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