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Animal as machine : the quest to understand how animals work and adapt / / Michel Anctil



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Autore: Anctil Michel <1945-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Animal as machine : the quest to understand how animals work and adapt / / Michel Anctil Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 pages)
Disciplina: 612
Soggetto topico: Physiology - History
Soggetto genere / forma: History
Informational works.
Soggetto non controllato: Belgian School
Bernd Heinrich
Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen
Brains
C Ladd Prosser
Charles Darwin
Edward Stuart Russell
Eric Kandel
Fish
Georges Cuvier
History
Integrative
Metabolism
Naples Zoological Station
Neural
Steven Pinker
William Hoar
Woods Hole
adaptation
anatomy
biology
comparative biochemistry
environment
evolution
form
functional
learning
modification
physiology
science
structure
survival
zoophysiology
Classificazione: cci1icc
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chronology -- An Unspoken Branch of Natural History -- The Uncertain Beginnings -- Building Sound Foundations -- The Turning Point -- American Schools of Comparative Physiology -- The Belgian School and the Rise of Comparative Biochemistry -- The Canadian Way: Fish Physiology and Biochemistry -- A Showcase of Animals Living on the Edge -- Learning How Animal Brains Work -- Learning How Chemicals Rule Animal Moods -- Epilogue -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Animal as Machine explores the life, work, and ideas of scientists who subscribed to mechanistic concepts to explain how animals process food, breathe, circulate their blood, and sense their environment. A remarkable story of the larger-than-life personalities and historical episodes that marked the emergence of animal physiology.
Titolo autorizzato: Animal as machine  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9780228012214
0-2280-1221-X
0-2280-1222-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827647603321
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