Description
Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition, presents all the branches of modern animal physiology with a strong emphasis on integration of physiological knowledge, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Integration extends from genes to organ systems and from one physiological discipline to another. The book takes an entirely fresh approach to each topic. Its full-color illustrations include many novel, visually-effective features to help students learn. Each of the twenty-five main chapters starts with an animal example to engage student interest and demonstrate the value of the material that will be learned. The book includes five additional chapters that apply students’ new found physiological knowledge to curiosity-provoking and important topics, including diving by marine mammals, the mechanisms of navigation, and muscle plasticity in use and disuse. The book is committed to a comparative approach throughout. Whereas mammalian physiology is consistently treated in depth, emphasis is also given to the other vertebrate groups, arthropods, and molluscs. 1,010 p.
- Richard W. Hill. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (USA).
- Gordon A. Wyse. University of Massachussets, Amherst, MA (USA).
- Margaret Anderson. Smith College, Northampton, MA (USA).
- Publication date (digital version): 2016-12 – Sinauer Associates (imprint of Oxford University Press).
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