title: Constrained Total Energy Expenditure and the Evolutionary Biology of Energy Balance.
abstract: The human body adapts dynamically to maintain total energy expenditure (TEE) within a narrow physiological range. Rather than increasing with physical activity in a dose-dependent manner, experimental and ecological evidence suggests the hypothesis that TEE is a relatively constrained product of our evolved physiology.
authors.affiliation: Hunter College, New York, NY City University of New York, New York, NY, New York Consortium for Evolutionary Primatology, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Herman
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pontzer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D055669:Ecological and Environmental Phenomena; D004463:Ecology; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity; D009765:Obesity / Q000378:metabolism