Research Catalog

Title

Vertebrate structures and functions; readings from Scientific American. With introductions by Norman K. Wessells.

Author

Wessells, Norman K.

Publication

San Francisco, W. H. Freeman [1974]

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Description

440 p. illus.; 30 cm.

Uniform Title

Scientific American.

Subject

• Adaptation (Biology)
• Vertebrates

Note

• Edition for 1969 published under title: Vertebrate adaptations.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [423]-429.

Contents

• An essay on vertebrates -- Structural adaptations of vertebrate bodies -- How fishes swim / James Gray -- How animals run / Milton Hildebrand -- How snakes move / Carl Gans -- The antiquity of human walking / John Napier -- The evolution of the hand / John Napier -- Birds as flying machines / Carl Welty -- Horns and antlers / Walter Modell -- Vascular system biology -- The physiology of exercise / Carleton B. Chapman and Jere H. Mitchell -- The heart / Carl J. Wiggers -- The microcirculation of the blood / Benjamin W. Zweifach -- The lymphatic system / H.S. Mayerson -- "The wonderful net" / P.F. Scholander -- Gas exchange and the lungs: adaptations for diving and high altitude -- Air-breathing fishers / Kjell Johansen -- The lung / Julius H. Comroe -- How birds breathe / Knut Schmidt-Nielsen -- Surface tension in the lungs / John A. Clements -- The master switch of life / P.F. Scholander -- The diving women of Korea and Japan / Suk Ki Hong and Hermann Rahn -- The physiology of high altitude / Raymond J. Hock -- Water balance and its control -- The eland and the oryx / C.R. Taylor -- Salt glands / Knut Schmidt-Nielsen --
• Temperature adaptations -- Fishes with warm bodies / Francis G. Carey -- How reptiles regulate their body temperature / Charles M. Bogert -- Adaptations to cold / Laurence Irving -- The human thermostat / T.H. Benzinger -- The production of heat by fat / Michael J.R. Dawkins and David Hull -- Desert ground squirrels / George A. Bartholomew and Jack W. Hudson -- Orientation and navigation -- The homing salmon / Arthur D. Hasler and James A. Larsen -- Electric location by fishes / H.W. Lissmann -- The infrared receptors of snakes / R. Igor Gamow and John F. Harris -- More about bat "radar" / Donald R. Griffin -- The navigation of penguins / John T. Emlen and Richard L Penney -- Hormones and internal regulation -- The hormones of the hypothalamus / Roger Geillemin and Roger Burgus -- The pineal gland / Richard J. Wurtman and Julius Axelrod -- Calcitonin / Howard Ramussen and Maurice M. Pechet -- How an eggshell is made / T.G. Taylor -- The chemical languages of fishes / John H. Todd -- Territorial marking by rabbits / Roman Mykytowycz -- How birds sing / Crawford H. Greenewalt -- Duet-singing birds / W.H. Thrope.

ISBN

0716708906 0716708892 (pbk.)

LCCN

73017004

OCLC

ocm00714372

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library