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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2009.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.