Thermal Regulation and acclimatization.

... THERMOREGULATION AND ACCLIMATIZATION Adapted from: Haymes EM, Wells CL. Environment and Human Performance. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics; 1986. Reference List available upon request. Thermal Regulation in the Human Organism Ecology is the branch of biology that deals with the relations between living organisms and their environments. Today, it is widely recognized that an organism is at the center of an ecosystem. As such, it is influenced by a multitude of physical and biological environmental factors. It is the essence of living things to be part of an ecosystem and yet to be capable of resisting, to some extent, the impact of the environment (Prosser, 1964). Organisms progress in complexity from a clump of cells that must closely conform to the conditions of their environment to more highly organized accumulations of soft tissues and organs that are capable of independent action. No organism's internal composition is exactly similar to its environment. Regulating organisms

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