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028			_a: International BookDistributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No. 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. _c: 119888 _d: 17/11/2023
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100			_aDenny, Mark.
100			_a; McFadzean, Alan.
245			_aEngineering animals _b: how life works. _c/Mark Denny.
260			_a, Cambridge, Massachusetts _b: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press _c, 2011.
300			_ax, 385 pages _b: illustrations _c: 24cm.
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520			_a: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			_aAnimal ecophysiology
650			_aPhysiologie
650			_aDevelopmental Biology
700			_aMark Denny
942			_cBOOK
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