Body Heat : : Temperature and Life on Earth / / Mark S. Blumberg.
Whether you're a polar bear giving birth to cubs in an Arctic winter, a camel going days without water in the desert heat, or merely a suburbanite without air conditioning in a heat wave, your comfort and even survival depend on how well you adapt to extreme temperatures.In this entertaining an...
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Blumberg, Mark S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Body Heat : Temperature and Life on Earth / Mark S. Blumberg. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009] ©2004 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Temperature: A User’s Guide -- 2. Behave Yourself -- 3. Then Bake at 98.6°F for 400,000 Minutes -- 4. Everything in Its Place -- 5. Cold New World -- 6. Fever All through the Night -- 7. The Heat of Passion -- 8. Livin’ off the Fat -- 9. The Light Goes Out -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Whether you're a polar bear giving birth to cubs in an Arctic winter, a camel going days without water in the desert heat, or merely a suburbanite without air conditioning in a heat wave, your comfort and even survival depend on how well you adapt to extreme temperatures.In this entertaining and illuminating book, biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including us). He moves from the physical principles that govern the flow of heat in and out of our bodies to the many complex evolutionary devices animals use to exploit those principles for their own benefit.In the process Blumberg tells wonderful stories of evolutionary and scientific ingenuity--how penguins withstand Antarctic winters by huddling together by the thousands, how vulnerable embryos of many species are to extremes of temperature during their development, why people survive hour-long drowning accidents in winter but not in summer, how certain plants generate heat (the skunk cabbage enough to melt snow around it). We also hear of systems gone awry--how desert species given too much water can drink themselves into bloated immobility, why anorexics often complain of feeling cold, and why you can't sleep if the room is too hot or too cold. After reading this book, you'll never look at a thermostat in quite the same way again. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Animal heat. Body temperature Regulation. Body temperature Regulations. Electronic books. -- local. SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674023765 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674023765 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674023765/original |
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