The Biology of Human Survival —— Life and Death in Extreme Environments

----- 人类生存生物学:极端环境下的生与死.

ISBN: 9780195165012 出版年：2003 页码：280 Piantadosi, Claude A Oxford University Press

This fascinating book explains how humans can live in extreme environments from a physiologist's perspective, using modern concepts of stress, tolerance and adaptation. The book examines how individuals cope with life under extremes of immersion, heat, cold and altitude, emphasizing the body's recognition of stress and the brain's role in the responses needed to escape or to adapt. It also explores how humanity deals with problems of adaptation, first by trial and error, then by scientific experimentation, and finally through technological innovation.