A accomplished and hugely illustrated textual content offering a huge and useful assessment of sensory platforms on the molecular, mobile and neurophysiological point of vertebrates, invertebrates and prokaryotes. It keeps a powerful specialise in human platforms, and takes an evolutionary and comparative method of evaluate the mechanosenses, chemosenses, photosenses, and different sensory structures together with these for detecting discomfort, temperature electrical and magnetic fields etc.
It comprises fascinating and critical new insights supplied by way of molecular biology which reveal how related the molecular structure and body structure of sensory cells are throughout species and throughout sensory modality, frequently indicationg a typical ancestry relationship again over part 1000000000 years.
Written through a well known writer, with vast educating adventure within the biology of sensory structures, this ebook includes:
* Over four hundred illustrations
* Self-assessment questions
* complete bibliography preceded via brief bibliographical essays
* bins containing valuable supplementary material.
it will likely be useful for undergraduates and postgraduates learning biology, zoology, animal body structure, neuroscience, anatomy, molecular biology, physiological psychology and comparable courses.