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Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds /
Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds offers an eye-opening look into how the characteristics of the physical world drive the designs of animals and plants. These characteristics impose limits but also create remarkable and subtle opportunities for the functional biology of organisms. In pa...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Two ways to move material
- The bioballistics of small projectiles
- Getting up to speed
- Moving heat around
- Maintaining temperature
- Gravity and life in the air
- Gravity and life on the ground
- Gravity and life in water
- Making and maintaining liquid water
- Pumping fluids through conduits
- To twist or bend when stressed
- Keeping up upward and down downward.