Why Geese Don't Get Obese (And We Do) How Evolution's Strategies for Survival Affect Our Everyday Lives

by Widmaier, Eric P.

• ISBN13: 9780716736493
• ISBN10: 0716736497
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-04
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman

Summary

What drives us to eat and accounts for different appetites? Why is breathing at high altitudes easy for birds and difficult for humans? Why do animals have two sets of sensory organs--eyes, ears, nostrils, etc ...?

Author Biography

Eric Widmaier is the author of The Stuff of Life and Associate Professor of Biology at Boston University. He has written numerous articles for scientific and nonscientific publications.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Different Species, Same Problems	p. 1
1,000 Cheeseburgers for Lunch, or Getting Enough to Eat	p. 6
Too Much to Eat!	p. 18
Getting Enough to Drink (Water, That Is)	p. 39
Oxygen--The Breath of Life	p. 51
Life Under Pressure	p. 68
Bat Wings and Elephant Ears: Keeping Cool	p. 87
Sensing the World Around Us	p. 101
Stone Age Stress and Coping with Change	p. 120
An Alternate Evolution	p. 136
Epilogue: Doing Physiology	p. 143
Notes	p. 150
Index	p. 178
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