Engineering Animals: How Life Works

by Alan McFadzean and Mark Denny

Book Overview

The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions?

Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and McFadzean offer an expert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674048547
• ISBN13: 9780674048546
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"