The Adaptive Phenomenon to Variable Amounts of Food Intake by Peoples Exposed to Extremes of Human Energy Requirements

Margaret Haswell

Chapter 1 in Energy for Subsistence, 1981, pp 1-21 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract For industrial uses man has been able to harness one source of energy after another from the wind to the atom; but for the type of energy that is needed by life itself he is still wholly dependent on the most primitive source, that of the animals and plants around him.

Keywords: Family Farmer; Daily Weight Gain; Daily Requirement; Agricultural Season; Draught Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05411-4_1

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