Animal as machine : the quest to understand how animals work and adapt / / Michel Anctil
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| Autore: |
Anctil Michel <1945->
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| Titolo: |
Animal as machine : the quest to understand how animals work and adapt / / Michel Anctil
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 9780228012214 |
| 0-2280-1221-X | |
| 0-2280-1222-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910795762603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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