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Life Out of Balance : Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine SeriesPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (356 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817393472
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life Out of BalanceDDC classification:
  • 612.022
LOC classification:
  • QP90
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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