Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis
Subtitle: The Physiology of Extreme States
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780226246710
Subjects: Seals (animals); Metabolism, regulation; Diving
Description: The comparative physiology of seemingly disparate organisms often serves as a surprising pathway to biological enlightenment. How appropriate, then, that Robert Elsner sheds new light on the remarkable physiology of diving seals through comparison with members of our own species on quests toward enlightenment: meditating yogis.