Life Out of Balance: Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World

by Joel B. Hagen

Traces historical developments in scientific conceptions of physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the mid-twentieth century

Life Out of Balance focuses on a period in history when new ideas of self-regulation, adaptation, and fitness became central to a variety of biological disciplines. During the decades surrounding World War II, these ideas developed in several quite different contexts and led...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081732089X
• ISBN13: 9780817320898
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up