Adaptability of man

Is the following true?:

- Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are
very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a
slight variation in the composition of the air, the precise
suitability of food, make all the differences between health and
sickness, between life and death.

Sir Robert S. Ball


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