Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals

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Author(s): Barry Gordon Lovegrove
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2019

Language: English

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