Description: Extended Organism : The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, Paperback by Turner, J. Scott, ISBN 0674009851, ISBN-13 9780674009851, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Can the structures that animals build--from the humble burrows of earthworms to towering termite mounds to the Great Barrier Reef--be said to live? However counterintuitive the idea might first seem, physiological ecologist Scott Turner demonstrates in this book that many animals construct and use structures to harness and control the flow of energy from their environment to their own advantage. Building on Richard Dawkinss classic, The Extended Phenotype, Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an organisms physiology at the skin of the animal is arbitrary. Since the structures animals build undoubtedly do physiological work, capturing and channeling chemical and physical energy, Turner argues that such structures are more properly regarded not as frozen behaviors but as external organs of physiology and even extensions of the animals phenotype. By challenging dearly held assumptions, a fascinating new view of the living world is opened to us, with implications for our understanding of physiology, the environment, and the remarkable structures animals build.
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Book Title: Extended Organism : The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Extended Organism : the Physiology of Animal-Built Structures
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), Life Sciences / Biology, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2002
Features: Reprint
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Science
Author: J. Scott Turner
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 7.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
