Engineering animals :: how life works /
From an engineer's perspective, how do specialized adaptations among living things really work? In this book the authors offer a look at animals, including humans, as works of evolutionary engineering, each adapted to a specific manner of survival whether that means spinning webs or flying acro...
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| Zusammenfassung: | From an engineer's perspective, how do specialized adaptations among living things really work? In this book the authors offer a look at animals, including humans, as works of evolutionary engineering, each adapted to a specific manner of survival whether that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark, or writing books. The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions? This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys the physical principles underlying animal structure and behavior. Pigeons, for instance, when understood as marvels of engineering, are flying remote sensors: they have wideband acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing, and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring. Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineering, but no life at all without it. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (x, 385 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and index. |
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| contents | Part 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 -- Part 2. Remote sensing. A chemical universe ; Sound ideas ; Animal sonar ; Seeing the light ; There and back again : animal navigation ; Talk to the animals. |
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| spelling | Denny, Mark, 1953- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjGb3KdcbPd6XkKByBFKr3 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006061147 Engineering animals : how life works / Mark Denny, Alan McFadzean. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (x, 385 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and index. Part 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 -- Part 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? In this book the authors offer a look at animals, including humans, as works of evolutionary engineering, each adapted to a specific manner of survival whether that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark, or writing books. The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions? This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys the physical principles underlying animal structure and behavior. Pigeons, for instance, when understood as marvels of engineering, are flying remote sensors: they have wideband acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing, and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring. Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineering, but no life at all without it. Print version record. Physiology. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101679 Animals Adaptation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005978 Animal ecophysiology. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91006269 Adaptation (Physiology) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000801 Evolution (Biology) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004042 Adaptation, Physiological Animal Population Groups physiology Biological Evolution Physiology https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010827 Physiologie. Animaux Adaptation. Animaux Écophysiologie. Adaptation (Physiologie) Évolution (Biologie) physiology. aat evolution. aat SCIENCE Life Sciences Zoology General. bisacsh SCIENCE Life Sciences Developmental Biology. bisacsh Evolution (Biology) fast Adaptation (Physiology) fast Animal ecophysiology fast Animals Adaptation fast Physiology fast McFadzean, Alan, 1958- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJc3G394wMdFYFgFtCHV4q http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011000475 has work: Engineering animals (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFYcCqWWdb8jkqfBf49yMP https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Denny, Mark, 1953- Engineering animals. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 9780674048546 (DLC) 2010051355 (OCoLC)676725394 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=390176 Volltext |
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| topic | Physiology. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101679 Animals Adaptation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005978 Animal ecophysiology. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91006269 Adaptation (Physiology) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000801 Evolution (Biology) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004042 Adaptation, Physiological Animal Population Groups physiology Biological Evolution Physiology https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010827 Physiologie. Animaux Adaptation. Animaux Écophysiologie. Adaptation (Physiologie) Évolution (Biologie) physiology. aat evolution. aat SCIENCE Life Sciences Zoology General. bisacsh SCIENCE Life Sciences Developmental Biology. bisacsh Evolution (Biology) fast Adaptation (Physiology) fast Animal ecophysiology fast Animals Adaptation fast Physiology fast |
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