1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778457203321

Autore

Blumberg Mark Samuel <1961->

Titolo

Body heat [[electronic resource] ] : temperature and life on earth / / Mark S. Blumberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-674-26212-3

0-674-02376-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

571.46

Soggetti

Body temperature - Regulation

Animal heat

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction 1. Temperature: A User's Guide 2. Behave Yourself 3. Then Bake at 98.6&deg;F for 400,000 Minutes 4. Everything in Its Place 5. Cold New World 6. Fever All through the Night 7. The Heat of Passion 8. Livin' off the Fat 9. The Light Goes Out Epilogue Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this illuminating book, biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals. In the process Blumberg tells wonderful stories of evolutionary and scientific ingenuity.