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Engineering Animals : How Life Works

ISBN: 9780674048546 | 0674048547

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 5/16/2011

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Summary Table of Contents

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 engineerrs"s perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions?Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and McFadzean offer an expert look at animals as works of engineering, each exquisitely adapted to a specific manner of survival, whether... MORE

Prologue	p. 1
Structure and Movement
Go with the Flow	p. 7
Structural Engineering: The Bare Bones	p. 35
A Moving Experience	p. 58
A Mind of Its Own	p. 81
Built for Life	p. 106
Simple Complexity: Emergent Behavior	p. 130
Remote Sensing
A Chemical Universe	p. 155
Sound Ideas	p... MORE. 178
Animal Sonar	p. 203
Seeing the Light	p. 236
There and Back Again: Animal Navigation	p. 263
Talk to the Animals	p. 289
Epilogue	p. 313
Notes	p. 317
Further Reading	p. 347
References	p. 351
Acknowledgments	p. 371
Index	p. 373
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