Adaptations to altitude: A current assessment

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2001, Pages 423-456

  Beall, Cynthia M ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Hypoxia; Oxygen transport; Tibet

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040623302     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.423     Document Type: Article

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