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What doesn't kill us : how freezing water, extreme altitude, and environmental conditioning will renew our lost evolutionary strength

text What doesn't kill us : how freezing water, extreme altitude, and environmental conditioning will renew our lost evolutionary strength

Carney, Scott

Summary
Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans-- feats of endurance that now seem impossible without modern technology. Can we hack our bodies and use the environment to stimulate our inner biology? Carney explores the true connection betwee... Read more
Contents
Preface. Burning up -- Introduction. An ode to a jellyfish -- The iceman cometh -- Raiding evolution's dustbin -- Measuring the impossible -- The wedge -- Bib 2182 -- Art of the crash -- Swatting mosquitoes with hand grenades -- It's raining insid... Read more
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Description
xxx, 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Publisher
Rodale 2017
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 613 CAR in Adult Non-fiction Available

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