Year: 2006
Type: paratext
Abstract: Variation in human functional eccrine sweat gland density in our sample is not explained by childhood climate or genetic similarity. Sweat production appears to be decoupled from functional eccrine density; differences in sweat production are attributable primarily to sweat output per eccrine gland. We hypothesize that phenotypic plasticity in aspects of thermoregulation other than eccrine gland density, including per-gland sweat production, are the primary means through which humans have and continue to adjust sweating capacity in new thermoregulatory environments.
Author: American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology (medical)
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: NAISS
OpenAlex ID: W4250988464