Engineering Animals : : How Life Works / / Alan McFadzean, Mark Denny.
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 constr...
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Denny, Mark, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Engineering Animals : How Life Works / Alan McFadzean, Mark Denny. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (395 p.) : 100 line illus., 18 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Part one: Structure and Movement -- 1 Go with the Flow -- 2 Structural Engineering: The Bare Bones -- 3 A Moving Experience -- 4 A Mind of Its Own -- 5 Built for Life -- 6 Simple Complexity: Emergent Behavior -- Part two: Remote Sensing -- 7 A Chemical Universe -- 8 Sound Ideas -- 9 Animal Sonar -- 10 Seeing the Light -- 11 There and Back Again: Animal Navigation -- 12 Talk to the Animals -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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?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 that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark-or writing books. This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys clearly, for engineers and nonengineers alike, 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. Issued also in print. 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 30. Aug 2021) SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General. bisacsh McFadzean, Alan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011 9783110261189 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011 9783110261233 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2011 9783110261202 ZDB-23-DMN 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 print 9780674048546 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674060852 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674060852 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674060852.jpg |
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