Balancing a Sauropod: The Physiology of a Dinosaur

by Brant E Isakson

Overview

One completely unexplored area in terms of physiology is the era of dinosaurs – with good reason, they lived over 100 million years ago and we're left to make inference based on fossilized bones. However, by merging classical, comparative and extreme physiology and applying it to current paleontological knowledge of dinosaurs Balancing a Sauropod: The Physiology of a Dinosaur will for the first time begin to provide a sound physiological underpinning for how they may have lived 100 million years ago.The climate dinosaurs lived in was extremely hypoxic compared to what we live in now, begging the question, 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.The topics focus on major organ systems and apply it to sauropod physiology. Less emphasis is given to the skeletal system, as that has been discussed extensively in other literature. Each organ system will be discussed in terms of function and current understanding of how they work in a comparative environment. Balancing a Sauropod: The Physiology of a Dinosaur is written to the technical level to both inform the lay reader and provide a sound argument to scientists in the field. - Introduces how a dinosaur utilized its complete organ system to function physiologically as an animal - Discusses how the once-dominant sauropod could have come to specialize and adapt at the physiological level to the Jurassic environment - Explores extreme physiologies

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128234198
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	10/31/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

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 more than 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.
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 more than 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.

Table of Contents

1. What do we know about the sauropods?2. The environment of the sauropod and it's physiology3. The sauropod's deep breath4. Moving blood through a sauropod: the vasculature5. At the heart of the sauropod6. Ideas on sauropod kidneys and digestion7. Balancing the sauropod

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A comprehensive reference providing sound physiological underpinning for how sauropods lived 100 million years ago