Engineering Animals - How Life Works

Informationen zum Autor Mark Denny is a retired aerospace engineer and the author of Froth: The Science of Beer. Alan McFadzean is an independent consultant. Klappentext From an engineer¿s perspective, how do specialized adaptations among living things really work? Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and Alan offer an expert look at animals¿including humans¿as works of evolutionary engineering, each exquisitely adapted to a specific manner of survival. Zusammenfassung From an engineer’s perspective, how do specialized adaptations among living things really work? Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and Alan offer an expert look at animals—including humans—as works of evolutionary engineering, each exquisitely adapted to a specific manner of survival.

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• Authors: Mark Denny, Mark Mcfadzean Denny, Alan Mcfadzean, McFadzean Alan
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2011
• EAN: 9780674048546
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04854-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: The Belknap Press
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Nature guide; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Developmental Biology, SCIENCE / Biotechnology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biophysics, Biology, life sciences, Wildlife: general interest, Zoology and animal sciences