Biochemical Adaptation
Subtitle: Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780195117028
Subjects: Animal physiology; Life sciences: general issues; Molecular biology; Biological Research; Comparative Physiology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biochemistry; Life Sciences - Ecology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Evolution; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Adaptation (Physiology); Molecular evolution; Physiology, Comparative
First sentence: The central question to be addressed in this volume is, How have living systems, which are based on a common set of biochemical structures and processes and subject to a common set of physical-chemical laws, been able to adapt to the enormously wide spectrum of environmental conditions found in the biosphere?