Prime Mover - Steven Vogel
A Natural History of Muscle
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KORTE INHOUD
Whether we blink an eye, lift a finger, throw a spear or a ball, walk, run, or merely breathe, we are using muscle. Although muscles differ little in appearance and performance across the animal kingdom, they accomplish tasks as diverse as making flies fly, rattlesnakes rattle, and squid shoot their tentacles.
Our everyday activities turn on the performance of nature's main engine: we may breathe harder going uphill, but we put more strain on our muscles walking downhill. Those of us who are right-handed c...
Our everyday activities turn on the performance of nature's main engine: we may breathe harder going uphill, but we put more strain on our muscles walking downhill. Those of us who are right-handed c...
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2003 Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company 384 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 039332463X ISBN-13: 9780393324631Koop dit boek tweedehands
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