000450073 000__ 03234cam\a2200409\a\4500 000450073 001__ 450073 000450073 005__ 20220628120840.0 000450073 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000450073 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000450073 008__ 110104s2011\\\\maua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000450073 010__ $$z2010051355 000450073 020__ $$a9780674060852$$qelectronic book 000450073 020__ $$z9780674048546 000450073 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn754820012 000450073 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496845 000450073 037__ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674060852$$bDOI 000450073 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000450073 05014 $$aQP31.2$$b.D46 2011eb 000450073 08204 $$a591.7$$222 000450073 1001_ $$aDenny, Mark,$$d1953- 000450073 24510 $$aEngineering animals$$h[electronic resource] :$$bhow life works /$$cMark Denny, Alan McFadzean. 000450073 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$$c2011. 000450073 300__ $$a1 online rewsource (viii, 385 p.) :$$bill. 000450073 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [351]-369) and index. 000450073 5050_ $$aStructure and Movement. Go with the flow ; Structural engineering : the bare bones ; A moving experience ; A mind of its own ; Built for life ; Simple complexity : emergent behavior -- Remote Sensing. A chemical universe ; Sound ideas ; Animal sonar ; Seeing the light ; There and back again : animal navigation ; Talk to the animals. 000450073 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000450073 520__ $$aFrom an engineer's perspective, how do specialized adaptations among living things really work? In this book the authors offer a look at animals, including humans, as works of evolutionary engineering, each adapted to a specific manner of survival whether that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark, or writing books. The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions? This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys the physical principles underlying animal structure and behavior. Pigeons, for instance, when understood as marvels of engineering, are flying remote sensors: they have wideband acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing, and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring. Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineering, but no life at all without it. 000450073 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000450073 650_0 $$aPhysiology. 000450073 650_0 $$aAnimals$$xAdaptation. 000450073 650_0 $$aAnimal ecophysiology. 000450073 7001_ $$aMcFadzean, Alan,$$d1958- 000450073 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aDenny, Mark, 1953-$$tEngineering animals.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011$$z9780674048546$$w(DLC) 2010051355$$w(OCoLC) 676725394 000450073 85280 $$bebk$$hHarvard University Press 000450073 85640 $$3Harvard University Press$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674060852$$zOnline Access 000450073 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:450073$$pGLOBAL_SET 000450073 980__ $$aEBOOK 000450073 980__ $$aBIB 000450073 982__ $$aEbook 000450073 983__ $$aOnline