Human Adaptation to High Altitude: Regional and Life-Cycle Perspectives

Yearbook of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 41, Issue , 1998, Pages 25-64

  Moore, Lorna G ^a   Niermeyer, Susan ^a,b   Zamudio, Stacy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Chronic mountain sickness; High altitude; Human evolution; Hypoxia; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGING; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; EXERCISE; HYPOXIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGING; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CHILD; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREGNANCY; TIBET;

EID: 0032238419     PISSN: 0096848X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(1998)107:27+<25::aid-ajpa3>3.0.co;2-l     Document Type: Article

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