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Why geese don't get obese (and we do) : how evolution's strategies for survival affect our everyday lives / Eric P. Widmaier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.H. Freeman, c1999.Description: ix, 213 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0716736497
  • 9780716736493
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 571.1
LOC classification:
  • QP 33 W641w 1999
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ch. 1. Different species, same problems -- ch. 2. 1,000 cheeseburgers for lunch, or getting enough to eat -- ch. 3. Too much to eat! -- ch. 4. Getting enough to drink (water, that is) -- ch. 5. Oxygen - the breath of life -- ch. 6. Life under pressure -- ch. 7. Bat wings and elephant ears : keeping cool -- ch. 8. Sensing the world around us -- ch. 9. Stone age stress and coping with change -- ch. 10. An alternate evolution -- Epilogue : doing physiology -- Notes -- Index.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) QP 33 W641w 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000080668

Includes index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ch. 1. Different species, same problems -- ch. 2. 1,000 cheeseburgers for lunch, or getting enough to eat -- ch. 3. Too much to eat! -- ch. 4. Getting enough to drink (water, that is) -- ch. 5. Oxygen - the breath of life -- ch. 6. Life under pressure -- ch. 7. Bat wings and elephant ears : keeping cool -- ch. 8. Sensing the world around us -- ch. 9. Stone age stress and coping with change -- ch. 10. An alternate evolution -- Epilogue : doing physiology -- Notes -- Index.

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