Michel Anctil

Gebundenes Buch

Animal as Machine

The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt

Beschreibung

Animal as Machine explores the life, work, and ideas of scientists who subscribed to mechanistic concepts to explain how animals process food, breathe, circulate their blood, and sense their environment. A remarkable story of the larger-than-life personalities and historical episodes that marked the emergence of animal physiology.

Autor

Michel Anctil is honorary professor of biology at Université de Montréal and author of Dawn of the Neuron: The Early Struggles to Trace the Origin of Nervous Systems and Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780228010531
• ISBN-10: 0228010535
• Artikelnr.: 62922737