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

ISBN-13: 9780817320898 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 360 str.

Joel B. Hagen; Alexandra Evonne Hui

Spis treści

• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Adaptation and the Wisdom of the Body
• Chapter 2. Bodily Wisdom or Stupidity?
• Chapter 3. Free and Independent Life
• Chapter 4. Living Water
• Chapter 5. Physiological Ecology from an Engineering Perspective
• Chapter 6. An Experimental Naturalist in the Laboratory and Field
• Chapter 7. Complexities of Thermoregulation
• Chapter 8. Physiological Teamwork, Homeostasis, and Coadaptation
• Chapter 9. Limits of Tolerance, Adaptation, and Speciation
• Chapter 10. Adaptation, Natural Selection, and Homeostatic Populations
• Chapter 11. Symbiosis and Coadaptation in Homeostatic Ecosystems
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index