Engineering Animals: How Life Works

by Alan McFadzean and Mark Denny

Book Overview

From an engineer's perspective, how do specialized adaptations among living things really work? Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and Alan offer an expert look at animals--including humans--as works of evolutionary engineering, each exquisitely adapted to a specific manner of survival.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674048547
• ISBN13: 9780674048546
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"