Schmidt-Nielsen Books
Scaling
By Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Schmidt-Nielsen, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
This book is about the importance of animal size. We tend to think of animal function in chemical terms and talk of water, salts, proteins, enzymes, oxygen, energy, and so on. We should not forget,...
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Comparative Physiology: Primitive Mammals
By KNUT, Schmidt-Nielsen, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Charles Richard Taylor, Liana Bolis, International Conference On Comparative Physiology, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Liana Bolis, Charles Richard Taylor, Pierre Dejours, C. Richard Taylor
Comparative Physiology: Primitive Mammals attempts to dispel the widely held notion that 'primitive' animals are less advanced or less complex than the 'non-primitive'. The term 'primitive', or mor...
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How Animals Work
By Schmidt-Nielsen, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
An elegant analysis of how animals work and function. Professor Schmidt-Nielsen's incisive account gives a clear understanding of comparative physiology in relation to body size, form and function,...
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