The Extended Organism
Subtitle: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: June 23, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780674001510
Subjects: Animal behaviour; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Animal Physiology; Environmental Physiology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Physiology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Biology; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Animals; Habitations
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.