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English Pages [150] Year 1948
ACCLIMATIZATION IN THE ANDES
SPECIAL EDITION FurRNISHED BY COURTESY OF ©
THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS For DisTRIBuTION BY
THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
HISTORICAL CONFIRMATIONS OF “CLIMATIC AGGRESSION” IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANDEAN MAN BY
CARLOS MONGE, M. D. Sc. D. Chicago CHon.) Director, Institute of Andean Biology University of San Marcos, Lima, Pert TRANSLATED BY
DONALD F. BROWN, Ph. D. Lecturer in Romance Languages, The Johns Hopkins University WITH A FOREWORD BY
ISAIAH BOWMAN President of The Johns Hopkins University
ae) BALTIMORE , THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS 1948
Coprynicut 1948, Tue Jouns Hopkins Press
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY J. H. FURST COMPANY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
CONTENTS PACE
ForEworp By IsAtan BowMAN . .._—siwysCé(ay”Cité«VS
INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . .. Xi CHAPTER
IJ. Evidence of Climatic Aggression ._ . I
II. Fertility and Acclimatization. . . 26
II. Individual Acclimatization . . . 47 IV. Racial Acclimatization . . . . 66 V. Altitude and Military Operations. . 93 SUMMARY... . .... SO —COs~