Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:36:50 -0600 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
>Are such adaptations genetic or environmental? If the people in the crew
>lived there, and tried to dress like the native as much as possible, would
>they too develop this adaptation after some number of seasons?
Hard to say. I think there is a "general" physiological adaptation that takes place (as others have reported). But, does it mean the growing additional capilaries in the hands (extemities)? I don't know.
Personally, I seem to be naturally "pre"-adapted to the cold. I wear shorts and t-shirts late into the year while everyone else around me is bundled up. During the summar months I perspire far more than everyone else. Yet, every once in awhile I see the opposite - someone walking down the street in a coat during 80F+ weather.
It's funny too, because as a child I was never able to handle cold weather very well. That's why as an adult I don't (downhill) ski.
|
|
|