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"Whether you're a polar bear giving birth to cubs in an Arctic winter, a camel going days without water in the desert heat, or merely a suburbanite without air conditioning in a heat wave, your comfort and even survival depend on how well you adapt to extreme temperatures." "In t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blumberg, Mark Samuel, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Temas:
Body temperature > Regulations.
Animal heat.
Body temperature > Regulation.
Adaptation (Physiology)
Body Temperature Regulation
Adaptation, Physiological
Température corporelle > Règlements.
Chaleur animale.
Thermorégulation.
Adaptation (Physiologie)
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Anatomy & Physiology.
SCIENCE > General.
Body temperature > Regulation
Animal heat
Body temperature
Rules
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Temperature : a user's guide
  • 2. Behave yourself
  • 3. Then bake at 98.6 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.

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