Are evolutionary hypotheses for motion sickness "just-so" stories?

Journal of Vestibular Research: Equilibrium and Orientation

Volumn 22, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 117-127

  Oman, Charles M ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptationism; evolution; Motion sickness; nausea; pluralism; toxicosis; vestibular; vomiting

Indexed keywords

EMETIC AGENT; NEUROTOXIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG EFFECT; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MOTION SICKNESS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NAUSEA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VESTIBULE; VOMITING;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; EMETICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION SICKNESS; MOVEMENT; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXINS; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; VOMITING;

EID: 84867150211     PISSN: 09574271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/VES-2011-0432     Document Type: Conference Paper

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