History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Vol. 31, No. 3/4, Animals and Surgery (2009), pp. 377-403 (27 pages) Advances in veterinary orthopaedics are assessed on their ability to improve the ...

Animals display an extraordinary array of structural adaptations that are intimately linked to their functional capacities. From the microscopic organisation of tissues and cells to the macroscopic ...

A SCHOLARLY and thoughtful book like this makes one feel how much is lost to students of biology by lack of attention to the historical development of the science. Not only is the human interest ...

The next time you go wild swimming, whether in a lake, river or sea, you are probably sharing the water with one of your ...

Animal communication is often structurally complex and dynamic, with signaler and receiver behavior varying in response to multiple environmental factors. To date, studies assessing signal dynamics ...

Not all brain cells are found in the brain. For example, a team at Caltech has identified two distinct types of neurons in the abdomens of mice that appear to control different aspects of digestion.