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Nature 431, 510-512 (30 September 2004) | doi:10.1038/431510a; Published online 29 September 2004
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Assistant or Associate Professor, Section of Anatomic Pathology
- The Medical College of Georgia
- Augusta, Georgia, USA
Professor / Associate Professor (Pharmaceutics / Pharmaceutical Analysis&quality Control)
- Alliance Institute of Advanced Pharmacy and Health Sciences
- Hyderabad 500038 India
Life on the edge
Mike Stroud1
BOOK REVIEWED-The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments
by Claude A. Piantadosi
Oxford University Press: 2003. 280 pp. £24.95, $35
Stories of human achievements and survival against the odds have always been fascinating. Whether in the context of simply living in the world's harshest environments, mounting expeditions to its hottest, coldest, highest or deepest places, or coping with the aftermath of disaster, everybody wonders at just how the body copes.
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