Extended organism, the: the physiology of animal-built structures
Auteur :
Turner, J. Scott
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674009851
Date de publication :
30 sept. 2002
Dimensions :
22,7 x 19,7 cm
Poids :
503 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Building on Dawkins’s classic, The Extended Phenotype, physiological ecologist Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an organism’s physiology at the skin is arbitrary. He argues that the structures animals build are better regarded not as frozen behaviors but as external organs of physiology and even extensions of the animal’s phenotype.