The Zoomable Universe: An Epic Tour Through Cosmic Scale, from Almost Everything to Nearly Nothing by Scharf Caleb
Author:Scharf, Caleb [Scharf, Caleb]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2017-10-17T04:00:00+00:00
A mouse and a whale contemplate each other across two orders of magnitude in scale.
Representation of a neuron cell body
Somehow, a regular and straightforward law emerges across all those assembled biological cells in radically different species and sizes. Other characteristics in biology also show surprising regularity. For example, the ways in which life spans, growth rates, and physical sizes scale with one another also exhibit simple mathematical relationships.
How can this be? It’s a fair bet that these are all manifestations of optimization, driven by natural selection favoring organisms that, putting it crudely, do the best with what they’ve got. But it works because a complex system of many parts can operate and cooperate across many scales.
The same is true in the collective behavior of multicellular organisms. They often form groups, herds, flocks, schools, or swarms. These gatherings behave like new types of entities with their own emergent laws. Their member creatures may each follow simple rules, but en masse they generate unexpected forms of cooperation as they move through the world.
Download
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt(16550)
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews(4641)
Harry Potter 02 & The Chamber Of Secrets (Illustrated) by J.K. Rowling(3282)
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson(2922)
Figure Drawing for Artists by Steve Huston(2778)
The Daily Stoic by Holiday Ryan & Hanselman Stephen(2692)
Drawing Cutting Edge Anatomy by Christopher Hart(2653)
The Roots of Romanticism (Second Edition) by Berlin Isaiah Hardy Henry Gray John(2559)
Japanese Design by Patricia J. Graham(2541)
Make Comics Like the Pros by Greg Pak(2401)
Stacked Decks by The Rotenberg Collection(2255)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (7) by J.K. Rowling(2198)
On Photography by Susan Sontag(2115)
Draw-A-Saurus by James Silvani(2092)
Tattoo Art by Doralba Picerno(2073)
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk(2042)
The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews(2001)
Churchill by Paul Johnson(2000)
Drawing and Painting Birds by Tim Wootton(1986)