Natural Conditions of Existence (Classic Reprint): As They Affect Animal Life: As They Affect Animal Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Karl Semper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330228871 ISBN 13: 9781330228876

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how the world around us shapes animal life, from light and heat to water and air.

This classic study collects evidence on how nonliving surroundings influence the growth, behavior, and distribution of animals. It combines physiological and ecological perspectives to show how factors like food, climate, and habitat structure guide life in the natural world. Rich with observations and experiments, the work aims to illuminate universal patterns that endure across species.

• How temperature, light, and moisture affect physiology and daily activity.


• How living surroundings, including currents, habitats, and ecosystems, shape animal life.


• Connections between environment, form, and function supported by maps and woodcuts.


• A framework for considering variability, adaptation, and distribution in nature.

Ideal for readers of natural history, ecology, and biology who want a thorough, experiment-minded view of how the environment molds life.

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Excerpt from Natural Conditions of Existence: As They Affect Animal Life

Darwin showed the possibility of discovering the path which nature struck out in order to produce her endless variety of animal forms, and of detecting the means She has employed in her task. Hence first arose those efforts, so natural in the zoologist, to acquire some comprehension of the succession in time Of the different types in the animal kingdom, since all who recognise Darwin's teaching must regard it not as an arbitrary and lawless assemblage of independent Species, but, on the contrary, as a great family of organisms of which the individual members, whether living or extinct, are united by a real.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330228871
• ISBN 13: 9781330228876
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496