Engineering animals: how life works
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1. Verfasser: Denny, Mark (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-369) and index
pt. 1. Structure and movement. Go with the flow ; Structural engineering : the bare bones ; A moving experience ; A mind of its own ; Built for life ; Simple complexity : emergent behavior -- pt. 2. Remote sensing. A chemical universe ; Sound ideas ; Animal sonar ; Seeing the light ; There and back again : animal navigation ; Talk to the animals
From an engineer's perspective, how do specialized adaptations among living things really work? Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and Alan offer an expert look at animals--including humans--as works of evolutionary engineering, each exquisitely adapted to a specific manner of survival
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (396 p.)
ISBN:0674048547
0674060857
9780674048546
9780674060852

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