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Mark Denny
Air and Water [PDF ebook]
The Biology and Physics of Life’s Media

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Addressing general readers and biologists, Mark Denny shows how the physics of fluids (in this case, air and water) influences the often fantastic ways in which life forms adapt themselves to their terrestrial or aquatic ‘media.’

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Mark W. Denny is Associate Professor of Biology at Stanford University.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 360 ● ISBN 9780691213880 ● File size 48.0 MB ● Publisher Princeton University Press ● City Princeton ● Country US ● Published 2020 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7427844 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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