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Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals

By Barry Gordon Lovegrove

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780300227161, 2018960623
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (24095267 bytes)
Pages
\324
Topic
Biology
Time added
2021-06-01 12:37:29

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Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part I. The Story in the Rocks One: A Narrative of Travels Two: Conquering Land: Ticking Boxes Three: The Karoo Four: The Permo-Triassic Kick-Start Five: Reptile Takeover Six: The Great Shrinking Seven: Feathers and Fur Eight: Taking to the Air Nine: The Heat of Darkness Part II. The Story in the Bloods Ten: The Day of Reckoning Eleven: Clown Mouse and Golden Mole Twelve: Madness Thirteen: Ankarafantsika Fourteen: Ancient Hibernation Fifteen: Twenty-Four Nipples Sixteen: The Pronghorn Pinnacle Seventeen: Cool Sperm Eighteen: Why We Are Hot Appendix One: Heat on Demand Appendix Two: Nasal Evaporative Cooling Appendix Three: Family Trees References Index

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