Description A groundbreaking argument on how endothermy--arguably the most important innovation in vertebrate evolution--developed in Birds and Mammals This pioneering work investigates why endothermy, or "warm-bloodedness," evolved in Birds and mammals, despite its enormous energetic costs.
Arguing that single-cause hypotheses to explain the origins of Endothermy have stalled research since the 1970s, Barry Gordon Lovegrove advances a novel conceptual framewor.
Description A groundbreaking argument on how endothermy--arguably the most important innovation in vertebrate evolution--developed in Birds and Mammals This pioneering work investigates why endothermy, or "warm-bloodedness," evolved in Birds and mammals, despite its enormous energetic costs
