Engineering Animals : : How Life Works /

Engineering Animals : : How Life Works / / Alan McFadzean, Mark Denny.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
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Denny, Mark,
McFadzean, Alan,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (395 p.) :; 100 line illus., 18 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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