Life out of balance : homeostasis and adaptation in a Darwinian world /

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Traces historical developments in scientific conceptions of physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the mid-twentieth century Life Out of Balance focuses on a period in history when new ideas of self-regulation, adaptation, and fitness became central to a variety of biological...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hagen, Joel Bartholemew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2021]
Series:Nexus (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Subjects:
Homeostasis.
Adaptation (Biology)
Evolution (Biology)
Mendel's law.
Natural selection.
Homeostasis
Adaptation, Biological
Homéostasie.
Adaptation (Biologie)
Lois de Mendel.
Natural selection
Mendel's law
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Adaptation and the Wisdom of the Body
  • 2. Bodily Wisdom or Stupidity?
  • 3. Free and Independent Life
  • 4. Living Water
  • 5. Physiological Ecology from an Engineering Perspective
  • 6. An Experimental Naturalist in the Laboratory and Field
  • 7. Complexities of Thermoregulation
  • 8. Physiological Teamwork, Homeostasis, and Coadaptation
  • 9. Limits of Tolerance, Adaptation, and Speciation
  • 10. Adaptation, Natural Selection, and Homeostatic Populations
  • 11. Symbiosis and Coadaptation in Homeostatic Ecosystems

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