9780674009851-0674009851-The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures

The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures

ISBN-13: 9780674009851
ISBN-10: 0674009851
Edition: Reprint
Author: J. Scott Turner
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674009851
ISBN-10: 0674009851
Edition: Reprint
Author: J. Scott Turner
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback 256 pages

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The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures (ISBN-13: 9780674009851 and ISBN-10: 0674009851), written by authors J. Scott Turner, was published by Harvard University Press in 2002. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Anatomy (Biological Sciences, Biology, Environment, Nature & Ecology) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Anatomy books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.91.

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Can the structures that animals build--from the humble burrows of earthworms to towering termite mounds to the Great Barrier Reef--be said to live? However counterintuitive the idea might first seem, physiological ecologist Scott Turner demonstrates in this book that many animals construct and use structures to harness and control the flow of energy from their environment to their own advantage. Building on Richard Dawkins's classic, The Extended Phenotype, Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an organism's physiology at the skin of the animal is arbitrary. Since the structures animals build undoubtedly do physiological work, capturing and channeling chemical and physical energy, Turner argues that such structures are more properly regarded not as frozen behaviors but as external organs of physiology and even extensions of the animal's phenotype. By challenging dearly held assumptions, a fascinating new view of the living world is opened to us, with implications for our understanding of physiology, the environment, and the remarkable structures animals build.

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