Women aymara native Peruvian-Bolivian altiplano. Note the classic hat region adaptation and acclimatization
native people of the Himalayas We
in an earlier installment of this blog: "MAN OF THE HEIGHT FULLY ADAPTED? Diferenciábamos acclimatization and adaptation, referring in the first case to incomplete adaptive mechanisms in man is born and lives in the South American Andes who is dwelling here about 14 000 years, and in the second case (adaptation) to the coping mechanisms of those reside at those altitudes over 500 000 years in the Himalayas (Sherpas as ).
The Act of the First Conference on Medicine and Surgery of the height, 1978, a pioneering publication on the Altitude Medicine, organized by the Medical Corps Chulec Hospital of La Oroya, whose organizing committee was chaired by Dr. Nelson Vidal La Torre, we found an exhaustive review of adaptation and acclimation.
Greetings from Dr. Alberto Hurtado in the foreword of the book
Dr. Marco Tulio Velasquez, physiologist, teacher, San Marcos and researcher at the High Altitude Medicine
"... .. When repairing the vocabulary we use every day seems to be that while one can speak of adaptation and acclimatization of the individual, it is not proper to speak of acclimatization of the population .
The dictionary of the Real Academia de la Lengua says Adaptation, the process by which an animal adapts to the environment and it changes. Acclimation makes an organic get used to a different climate conditions at the temple and it was normal.
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That is, the term definitely seems Acclimation characteristic of the processes occurring in a living environment where change and adaptation to the processes that allow the living to accommodate the environment in which they live or changes in it.
The second is a more generic term because from a strictly semantic point of view, which may not be important. What matters is whether it should change to a better understanding semantic equivalence, perhaps because of its lack of flexibility to adapt to biological phenomena and population, and only then adopt a different meaning for each term or add any terms that may better define certain conditions ( eg acclimatization, habituation, skills, etc.).
With all the respect I have the unique figure of Alberto Hurtado, do not believe that acclimation to qualify as "natural" and "acquired" add something to the understanding of the phenomenon. And if instead, we believe it adds a further expression to the existing confusion of terms.
Firstly because improperly extends the meaning of "climate" to matters that are foreign and the sociocultural and secondly because it puts the burden of clarification in the qualifiers when clarifies the distinction the Academy of Language in the substantive . At no time did Howard or any other researcher has made the distinction between "acclimatization natural "as he defines it and" adaptation. " We would put behind this or any other nomenclature, which seems bizarre, if comparing the terms used in biology and anthropology, emerged a clarification of concepts.
On one occasion I said that one of the difficulties in understanding the problem we often comes from a lack of agreement on the semantic value of the terms we use. And first of all adaptation and acclimatization: a brief analysis probably will not for anything to justify why he speaks, uses the term "adaptation" acclimation and not judge the natives.
is clear that the term adaptation has been used in biological and social sciences as unscrupulous and misleading. Certainly the term related agencies, environment and environmental changes and concerns to the adjustments advantageous and beneficial to the survival and welfare of an organism in a given environment: genetic adaptation of acclimatization is referred to phenotypic adjustment environmental conditions and can be defined in terms of time. Folk nomenclature has been discussed and removed the term adaptation should be used as a generic and that the use of acclimation to describe settings through generations, almost synonymous with genetic adaptation is totally inadequate.
is enormous confusion that has resulted from applying concepts of adaptation of populations (such as selection) to the individual adjustment or adaptation to extrapolate individual stocks. And acclimation can not relate to people but to the individuals within populations and refers to individual biological responses, is the adjustment from one organism to another environment that is not yours. Acclimatized individuals, not people ... .. "
In conclusion, after reviewing the semantic explanations Dr. Marco Tulio Velásquez, in this blog we agree to use the term forward ADAPTATION to explain the physiological mechanisms of accommodation in the native height .
