Engineering animals (Record no. 61283)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780674048546
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : International BookDistributors
Distributor address : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No. 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.
Bill Number : 119888
Bill Date : 17/11/2023
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 591.7 DEN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Denny, Mark.
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name ; McFadzean, Alan.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Engineering animals
Remainder of title : how life works.
Statement of responsibility, etc /Mark Denny.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , Cambridge, Massachusetts
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2011.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 385 pages
Other physical details : illustrations
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2479
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc :From an engineer's perspective, how do specialized adaptations among living things really work? In this book the authors offer a look at animals, including humans, as works of evolutionary engineering, each adapted to a specific manner of survival whether that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark, or writing books. The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions? This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys the physical principles underlying animal structure and behavior. Pigeons, for instance, when understood as marvels of engineering, are flying remote sensors: they have wideband acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing, and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring. Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineering, but no life at all without it.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Animal ecophysiology
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physiologie
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Developmental Biology
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mark Denny
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Koha item type Books
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 05/12/2023 International Book Distributors 2479.00 5 7 591.7 DEN 29875 02/12/2026 30/10/2026 30/10/2026 05/12/2023 Books
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