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Life's devices : the physical world of animals and plants
| 責任表示 | Steven Vogel ; illustrated by Rosemary Anne Calvert |
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| データ種別 | 図書 |
| 出版情報 | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , c1988 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | xii, 367 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| 概要 | This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. My immodest aim, says the author, is to change how you view your immediate surroundings. He a...ks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fish swims more rapidly than a duck can paddle, why healthy trees more commonly uproot than break, how a shark manages with such a flimsy skeleton, or how a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height. The book will not only fascinate the general reader but will also serve as an introductory survey of biomechanics. On one hand, organisms cannot alter the earth's gravity, the properties of water, the compressibility of air, or the behavior of diffusing molecules. On the other, such physical factors form both constraints with which the evolutionary process must contend and opportunities upon which it might capitalize. Life's Devices includes examples from every major group of animals and plants, with references to recent work, with illustrative problems, and with suggestions of experiments that need only common household materials. This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. My immodest aim, says the author, is to change how you view your immediate surroundings. He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fish swims more rapidly than a duck can paddle, why healthy trees more commonly uproot than break, how a shark manages with such a flimsy skeleton, or how a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height. The book will not only fascinate the general reader but will also serve as an introductory survey of biomechanics. On one hand, organisms cannot alter the earth's gravity, the properties of water, the compressibility of air, or the behavior of diffusing molecules. On the other, such physical factors form both constraints with which the evolutionary process must contend and opportunities upon which it might capitalize. Life's Devices includes examples from every major group of animals and plants, with references to recent work, with illustrative problems, and with suggestions of experiments that need only common household materials. 続きを見る |
所蔵情報
| 状態 | 巻次 | 所蔵場所 | 請求記号 | 刷年 | 文庫名称 | 資料番号 | コメント | 予約・取寄 | 複写申込 | 自動書庫 |
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農 生物環境利推セ | 461.2/V 86/l | 1988 |
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書誌詳細
| 一般注記 | Bibliography: p. 343-352 Includes index |
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| 著者標目 | *Vogel, Steven, 1940- |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Biophysics LCSH:Biomechanics |
| 分 類 | LCC:QH505 DC19:574.19/1 |
| 書誌ID | 1000122343 |
| ISBN | 0691085048 |
| NCID | BA06639407 |
| 巻冊次 | : alk. paper ; ISBN:0691085048 ; PRICE:$45.00 : pbk. ; ISBN:0691024189 ; PRICE:$17.95 |
| 登録日 | 2009.09.10 |
| 更新日 | 2009.09.10 |