Engineering animals:how life works
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, MA |
Publication Dates: | 2011. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | viii, 385 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
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9780674048546 (hbk.) 0674048547 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | Q955 |
CLC: | Q955 |
Call Number: | Q955/D412 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-369) and index. Structure and Movement. Go with the flow ; Structural engineering : the bare bones ; A moving experience ; A mind of its own ; Built for life ; Simple complexity : emergent behavior -- Remote Sensing. A chemical universe ; Sound ideas ; Animal sonar ; Seeing the light ; There and back again : animal navigation ; Talk to the animals. |