Erik R. Swenson • Peter Bärtsch
Editors

2014

Human Adaptation to Hypoxia

Mountains stir our imagination and not solely for their beauty and magnificence. Perhaps also because they tax our physical limits as individuals and as a population. As scientists and nonscientists we find this an irresistible subject. The rarified air of the highest terrestrial altitudes poses one of the greatest biological challenges to functioning and survival that our species has faced in its radiation “out of Africa” over the globe.