Living, working and exercising in extreme terrestrial environments are challenging tasks
even for healthy humans of the modern new age. The issue is not just survival in remote …

Human Physiology in Extreme Environments, Second Edition, offers evidence on how
human biology and physiology is affected by extreme environments, also highlighting …

New Findings What is the topic of this review? This review concerns human responses to
extreme environmental stresses. What advances does it highlight? This review highlights the …

Various approaches have been used to understand the origins of the functional traits that
characterize the Andean high‐altitude native. Based on the conceptual framework of …

Human habitation and adaptation to extreme environments have a deep history in
anthropological research. Anthropologists' understanding of these ecological pressures and …

The fields of biological anthropology and exercise physiology are closely related and can
provide mutually beneficial insights into human performance. These fields often use similar …

Human biologists have long recognized the important role that environmental stressors play
in shaping variation in human physiology and morphology. Among human populations …

Physiology can be viewed as the collection of mechanisms and processes that allows
organisms to deal with challenges from both internal (eg, exercise, growth, reproduction) …

To prepare for extremes of heat, cold or low partial pressures of oxygen (O 2), humans can
undertake a period of acclimation or acclimatization to induce environment-specific …

How human beings have adapted to a wide range of stressful environments-extreme
temperatures, solar radiation, high altitudes, and nutritional stress-has been the subject of …