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001478960 1001_ $$aDenny, Mark, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
001478960 24510 $$aEngineering Animals :$$bHow Life Works /$$cAlan McFadzean, Mark Denny.
001478960 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2011]
001478960 264_4 $$c©2011
001478960 300__ $$a1 online resource (395 p.) :$$b100 line illus., 18 halftones
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001478960 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPrologue -- $$tPart one: Structure and Movement -- $$t1 Go with the Flow -- $$t2 Structural Engineering: The Bare Bones -- $$t3 A Moving Experience -- $$t4 A Mind of Its Own -- $$t5 Built for Life -- $$t6 Simple Complexity: Emergent Behavior -- $$tPart two: Remote Sensing -- $$t7 A Chemical Universe -- $$t8 Sound Ideas -- $$t9 Animal Sonar -- $$t10 Seeing the Light -- $$t11 There and Back Again: Animal Navigation -- $$t12 Talk to the Animals -- $$tEpilogue -- $$tNotes -- $$tFurther Reading -- $$tReferences -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex
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001478960 520__ $$aThe alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions?Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and McFadzean offer an expert look at animals as works of engineering, each exquisitely adapted to a specific manner of survival, whether that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark-or writing books. This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys clearly, for engineers and nonengineers alike, the physical principles underlying animal structure and behavior.Pigeons, for instance-when understood as marvels of engineering-are flying remote sensors: they have wideband acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing, and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring. Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineering, but no life at all without it.
001478960 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
001478960 546__ $$aIn English.
001478960 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
001478960 650_7 $$aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General.$$2bisacsh
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