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Cold and heat adaptations in humans are a part of the broad adaptability of Homo sapiens. Adaptations in humans can be physiological, genetic, or cultural, which allow people to live in a wide variety of climates.
Humans and many other mammals have unusually efficient internal temperature regulating systems that automatically maintain stable core body temperatures in cold winters and warm summers. In addition, people have developed cultural patterns and technologies that help them adjust to extremes of temperature and humidity.
Jul 21, 2023 · Climate adaptation to heat comes in many forms — from opening cooling centers and extending the hours of public pools, to girding electric grids for peak air-conditioning demand. It can be...
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- The Boxgrove Hunters
- Cold Climate Specialists
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Sites from more recent settlements, such as Boxgrove in West Sussex, southern England, offer more clues about how ancient hominins survived northern climates. The Boxgrove sitedates to nearly 500,000 years ago, when the climate deteriorated towards one of the coldest periods in human history. There is good evidence these hominins hunted animals, fr...
The Neanderthals, who lived in Eurasia about 400,000-40,000 years ago, inhabited glacial climates . Compared to their predecessors in Africa, and to us, they had short, strong limbs, and wide, muscular bodies suited to producing and retaining heat. Yet the Neanderthal protruding face and beaky nose are the opposite of what we might expect to be ada...
The earliest fossils in the Homo sapiens lineage date from 300,000 years ago, from Morocco. But we didn’t spread out of Africa until about 60,000 years ago, colonising all parts of the globe. This makes us relative newcomers in most habitats we now inhabit. Over the intervening thousands of years, people living in freezing cold places have adapted ...
Feb 22, 2016 · We adapt our body posture to minimize heat loss. For instance, newborns show skin exposure of 79% when in thermal comfort and 69% when exposed to a cool environment. 20 More specifically and more importantly in the cold, physical activity may increase to generate more heat.
- Hein A.M. Daanen, Wouter D. Van Marken Lichtenbelt
- 10.1080/23328940.2015.1135688
- 2016
- Jan-Mar 2016
Feb 25, 2021 · Our new research shows that a common genetic variant in the skeletal muscle gene, ACTN3, makes people more resilient to cold temperatures. Around one in five people lack a muscle protein called...
Climatic adaptation, in physical anthropology, the genetic adaptation of human beings to different environmental conditions. Physical adaptations in human beings are seen in response to extreme cold, humid heat, desert conditions, and high altitudes.
