001399540 000__ 03272cam\a2200409\a\4500 001399540 001__ 1399540 001399540 005__ 20220628120855.0 001399540 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001399540 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 001399540 008__ 220628s2011\\\\maua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 001399540 010__ $$z2010051355 001399540 020__ $$a9780674060852$$qelectronic book 001399540 020__ $$z9780674048546 001399540 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn754820012 001399540 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496845 001399540 037__ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674060852$$bDOI 001399540 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 001399540 05014 $$aQP31.2$$b.D46 2011eb 001399540 08204 $$a591.7$$222 001399540 1001_ $$aDenny, Mark,$$d1953- 001399540 24510 $$aEngineering animals$$h[electronic resource] :$$bhow life works /$$cMark Denny, Alan McFadzean. 001399540 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$$c2011. 001399540 300__ $$a1 online rewsource (viii, 385 p.) :$$bill. 001399540 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [351]-369) and index. 001399540 5050_ $$aStructure and Movement. Go with the flow ; Structural engineering : the bare bones ; A moving experience ; A mind of its own ; Built for life ; Simple complexity : emergent behavior -- Remote Sensing. A chemical universe ; Sound ideas ; Animal sonar ; Seeing the light ; There and back again : animal navigation ; Talk to the animals. 001399540 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001399540 520__ $$aFrom an engineer's perspective, how do specialized adaptations among living things really work? In this book the authors offer a look at animals, including humans, as works of evolutionary engineering, each adapted to a specific manner of survival whether that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark, or writing books. The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions? This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys the physical principles underlying animal structure and behavior. Pigeons, for instance, when understood as marvels of engineering, are flying remote sensors: they have wideband acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing, and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring. Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineering, but no life at all without it. 001399540 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 001399540 650_0 $$aPhysiology. 001399540 650_0 $$aAnimals$$xAdaptation. 001399540 650_0 $$aAnimal ecophysiology. 001399540 7001_ $$aMcFadzean, Alan,$$d1958- 001399540 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aDenny, Mark, 1953-$$tEngineering animals.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011$$z9780674048546$$w(DLC) 2010051355$$w(OCoLC) 676725394 001399540 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete 001399540 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10496845$$zOnline Access 001399540 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:450073$$pGLOBAL_SET 001399540 980__ $$aEBOOK 001399540 980__ $$aBIB 001399540 982__ $$aEbook 001399540 983__ $$aOnline