Widmaier, Eric P. <br/><br/>
Why geese don't get obese (and we do) :  how evolution's strategies for survival affect our everyday lives / 
Eric P. Widmaier. 
 - New York :  W.H. Freeman,  c1999. 
 - ix, 213 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/> Preface --  Acknowledgments --  Different species, same problems --  1,000 cheeseburgers for lunch, or getting enough to eat --  Too much to eat! --  Getting enough to drink (water, that is) --  Oxygen - the breath of life --  Life under pressure --  Bat wings and elephant ears : keeping cool --  Sensing the world around us --  Stone age stress and coping with change --  alternate evolution --  Epilogue : doing physiology --  Notes --  Index.  ch. 1.  ch. 2.  ch. 3.  ch. 4.  ch. 5.  ch. 6.  ch. 7.  ch. 8.  ch. 9.  ch. 10. An 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0716736497 9780716736493 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Physiology, Comparative--Popular works.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QP 33  / W641w 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>571.1