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

Background Research on human extreme cold climate adaptations has benefitted from a
recent resurgence since Ted Steegmann laid out his Human Cold Adaptation Agenda in …

Background Characteristics of the urban environment may contain upstream drivers of
obesity. However, research is lacking that considers the combination of environmental …

Extreme climatic events are increasing in frequency, leading to hotter temperatures,
flooding, droughts, severe storms, and rising oceans. This special issue brings together a …

Objective High levels of total energy expenditure (TEE, kcal/day) have been documented
among numerous human populations such as tropical climate horticulturalists and high …

Taken together, these findings encompass the importance of taking into account up-to-date
advances in Nutrigenetic and Nutrigenomic hallmarks, globally analysing the risk of weight …

Inequality represents an extreme environment to which humans must respond. One
phenomenon that contributes to this growing extreme is precarity or the intersection of …

Objectives Evolutionary theorists have debated the adaptive significance of developmental
plasticity in organisms with long lifespans such as humans. This debate in part stems from …

Abstract Background Northern Finland, like the rest of the Arctic, has experienced increases
in mean annual temperature, the number of winter rains, the number of thaw–freeze days …

As global obesity rates continue to rise, it is important to understand the origin, role and
range of human variation of body mass index (BMI) in assessing health and healthcare. A …