Human Diversity: Design for Life
April 27, 2008 | Levent OZLER
Over the past 25 years Physiological Anthropology has focused on Human Adaptability to physical environments using laboratory methods, which controlled some physical factors.
The adaptability was evaluated in terms of body temperature regulation, respiratory and cardiovascular functions and body composition, or physical fitness.
The collected data has been applied to actual space as well as products in daily life through cooperation with business and companies.
One of the aims of Physiological Anthropology is "to conduct research into humans in modern society from both a physiological and a cultural standpoint, in an effort to create a truly healthy and comfortable living environment as rapid advances in Science and Technology are having a profound effect on the human community, in terms of not only lifestyle and culture but the physiological capabilities of the human body as well".
We should now start to pay attention to individual differences in these physiological parameters, which should be considered not as errors, but as natural variation between individuals.
Therefore, we have to make efforts to study the biological characteristics that can explain these similarities and differences.
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