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Balancing a Sauropod

The Physiology of a Dinosaur
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Balancing a Sauropod: The Physiology of a Dinosaur provides a sound physiological underpinning for how they may have lived 100 million years ago. The book's topics focus on major organ systems and apply it to potential sauropod physiology. Less emphasis is given to the skeletal system, as that has been discussed extensively in other literature. Each organ system is discussed in terms of function and current understanding of how they work in a comparative environment. This resource is written at a technical level to both inform the lay reader and provide a sound argument to scientists in the field. Sauropods were the largest land animal to ever walk the earth with an incredible distance form heart to brain, begging the question, how did they maintain blood flow in their brain? Also, the climate sauropods lived in was hypoxic compared to what we live in now, so how did the dinosaurs breathe in the hypoxic Jurassic era? These questions and others expand to multiple fascinating questions the book will dissect in order of organ systems.

Author Biography:

Dr. Brant Isakson is a tenured Professor of Molecular Physiology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He teaches medical school students vascular physiology, as well as the PhD students Graduate Physiology and Extreme Physiology courses. His research disciplines include physiology, translational science, cardiovascular biology, metabolism, and molecular pharmacology. Dr. Isakson has published over 150 scholarly manuscripts in top-tier journals and serves on several Editorial Boards. He’s exceptionally well-trained in reading, interpreting, teaching and writing about the physiological properties of animals. The proposed book does not take on paleontology in the classic sense but uses extreme physiology to examine the potential fascinating extreme physiology of sauropods.
Release date NZ
November 1st, 2024
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
200
ISBN-13
9780128233030
Product ID
35592100

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