Publisher's Synopsis
This book is intended as a broad examination of general biological concepts from the viewpoint of a comparative physiologist. It is the hope of the author that specialists will find this book useful as an overview of other specialties and for relating one area of biology to another. viewpoints and unresolved questions.;"Adaptational Biology: Molecules to Organisms" aims to provide an intellectual bridge between molecular and whole-organism biology, with a pervasive evolutionary theme. It is the authors belief that it is important for physiologists to be aware of the implications of evolutionary theory and equally important for evolutionists to know some physiology.