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Physiological Anthropology Lab
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The lab explores how humans adapt to environments such as cold and high altitude.

AboutAbout the lab
Exploring human adaptation to the environment through physiology.
The Physiological Anthropology Lab studies how modern humans adapt to their environments.
It examines how physiological diversity in evolution and adaptation relates to genetic factors.
The lab also conducts joint research with companies aimed at improving human life and promoting health.
Key terms
- Physiological anthropology
- A field that uses the functioning of the human body as a clue to study how humans adapt to their environments
- Physiological diversity
- Differences in how the body functions among individual humans, or between human populations
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's research theme is the ability of modern humans to adapt to their environments. Focusing on adaptation to cold and high altitude, it investigates how physiological diversity relates to genetic factors.
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- Associate ProfessorTakayuki Nishimura
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Inuit sculpture, Canada - Arctic Museum” Fanny Schertzer / CC BY-SA 2.5 (cropped)
- Adaptation to Cold and High Altitude, and Physiological Diversity: “Aksai Chin high altitude plateau” B_Aichner / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Physiological Anthropology Lab (Takayuki Nishimura)): “Tibetan Plateau landscape” Jan Kranendonk (https://www.jankranendonk.nl) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Physiological Anthropology Lab): “Emotion face symbol blocks on blue background ( )” Jernej Furman from Slovenia / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Physiological Anthropology Lab): “Sleeping cat on her back” Umberto Salvagnin / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Physiological Anthropology Lab (Takafumi Maeda)): “Thermal image of Bronze Spring (morning, 11 June 2016)” James St. John / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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