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Fires of life : endothermy in birds and mammals / Barry Gordon Lovegrove ; foreword by Roger S. Seymour.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 356 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300245202
  • 0300245203
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fires of life.DDC classification:
  • 612/.01426 23
LOC classification:
  • QP135 .L684 2019eb
NLM classification:
  • QT 165
Online resources:
Contents:
PART I. The story in the rocks -- A narrative of travels -- Conquering land: ticking boxes -- The Karoo -- The permo-triassic kick-start -- Reptile takeover -- The great shrinking -- Feathers and fur -- Taking to the air -- The heat of darkness -- PART II. The story in the bloods -- The day of reckoning -- Clown mouse and golden mole -- Madness -- Ankarafantsika -- Ancient hibernation -- Twenty-four nipples -- The pronghorn pinnacle -- Cool sperm -- Why we are hot -- Appendix one: heat on demand -- Appendix two: nasal evaporative cooling -- Appendix three: family trees -- References -- Index.
Summary: A groundbreaking argument on how endothermy-arguably the most important innovation in vertebrate evolution-developed in birds and mammals This pioneering work investigates why endothermy, or "warm-bloodedness," evolved in birds and mammals, despite its enormous energetic costs. Arguing that single-cause hypotheses to explain the origins of endothermy have stalled research since the 1970s, Barry Gordon Lovegrove advances a novel conceptual framework that considers multiple potential causes and integrates data from the southern as well as the northern hemisphere. Drawing on paleontological data; research on extant species in places like the Karoo, Namaqualand, Madagascar, and Borneo; and novel physiological models, Lovegrove builds a compelling new explanation for the evolution of endothermy. Vividly narrated and illustrated, this book stages a groundbreaking argument that should prove provocative and fascinating for specialists and lay readers alike
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I. The story in the rocks -- A narrative of travels -- Conquering land: ticking boxes -- The Karoo -- The permo-triassic kick-start -- Reptile takeover -- The great shrinking -- Feathers and fur -- Taking to the air -- The heat of darkness -- PART II. The story in the bloods -- The day of reckoning -- Clown mouse and golden mole -- Madness -- Ankarafantsika -- Ancient hibernation -- Twenty-four nipples -- The pronghorn pinnacle -- Cool sperm -- Why we are hot -- Appendix one: heat on demand -- Appendix two: nasal evaporative cooling -- Appendix three: family trees -- References -- Index.

A groundbreaking argument on how endothermy-arguably the most important innovation in vertebrate evolution-developed in birds and mammals This pioneering work investigates why endothermy, or "warm-bloodedness," evolved in birds and mammals, despite its enormous energetic costs. Arguing that single-cause hypotheses to explain the origins of endothermy have stalled research since the 1970s, Barry Gordon Lovegrove advances a novel conceptual framework that considers multiple potential causes and integrates data from the southern as well as the northern hemisphere. Drawing on paleontological data; research on extant species in places like the Karoo, Namaqualand, Madagascar, and Borneo; and novel physiological models, Lovegrove builds a compelling new explanation for the evolution of endothermy. Vividly narrated and illustrated, this book stages a groundbreaking argument that should prove provocative and fascinating for specialists and lay readers alike

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