Basal metabolic rate in the Yakut (Sakha
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J. Josh Snodgrass; William R. Leonard; Larissa A. Tarskaia; Vasili P. Alekseev;
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Human indigenous circumpolar populations have elevated basal metabolic rates (BMRs) relative to predicted values; this metabolic elevation has been postulated to be a physiological adaptation to chronic and severe cold stress. The present study examines BMR in the Yakut, an indigenous high-latitude