Physiology for Everyone

by B.F. Sergeev, Oleg Meshkov (Translator)

Our planet, the Earth, is the home of hundreds of thousands of living creatures. Life has permeated everywhere. It has ascended to the tops of the highest mountains, where there is hardly any air, and has hidden beneath the expanses of the oceans, reconciling itself to the tremendous pressures exerted by the waters. Life has come to the hot, arid deserts and to the eternal ice of the Arctic. Living creatures have adapted themselves to an absence of oxygen, to everlasting gloom, and to silence. But, wherever living organisms have settled, they need food which has to be distributed throughout their bodies, and they have to carry out the processes of metabolism. They also need to feel at home in their environment and start families to ensure the survival of the species. This book will tell you about Nature's amazing inventions which have made it possible for animals to populate our Earth, dealing as it does with live lanterns, radars, animal power stations, the mysteries of digestion, the automatism of the circulation of the blood, which is the body's most perfect transportation system, the structure of photo- and audio-receptors, the mysterious third eye, the secret workings of the brain, and the peculiarities of reproduction. Man has barely started to become familiar with Nature's ingenious fantasy, but he is already getting to grips with the process of evolution and making use of all Nature's treasures and inventions. The aim of this book is to call the reader's attention to the endless horizons of the science of living beings.

Genres: Science

344 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2000

About the author

Boris Fedorovich Sergeev - Soviet scientist, writer, popularizer of science, doctor of biological sciences, specialist in the field of evolutionary and ecological physiology, mainly brain physiology, as well as animal ethology.

Born in 1934. Graduated from the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute named. Academician I.P. Pavlova.

Over the long years of research activity, a long line of animals of various levels of development passed through his hands, from anemones and lancelets, crabs, lampreys and sharks to monitor lizards, crocodiles, dolphins and great apes. Experiments in the laboratory were replaced by expeditions to nature, to the sea of ​​the cradle of life, behind the shaky surface of which there is a world a hundred times richer than our land.

However, the results of research, scientific observations and discoveries should by no means remain the property of scientists alone. Each person needs to know as much as possible about the world around us and about himself. That is why a large series of books about the physiology of the brain, about the evolution of this organ, about how he "learned to think" and how the work of the human brain differs from the work of the brain of animals, came out from the pen of BF Sergeev.

In addition, he wrote a number of books on evolutionary physiology, about how animals adapted to the most incredible, sometimes extreme conditions of life in the eternal darkness and cold of the sea depths, under the pressure of the colossal water pressure, in the icy expanses of the polar regions of the planet, in the hot hell of anhydrous deserts or in the rarefied atmosphere of mountain peaks. Boris Fedorovich Sergeev was born in 1934. Graduated from the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute named after V.I. Academician I.P. Pavlova. Doctor of Biological Sciences, specialist in the field of evolutionary and ecological physiology, mainly brain physiology, as well as animal ethology.

Reviews

[KM Abiduzzaman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is like a storybook of Biology.Throughout it Sergeev explained a lot of biological phenomenon.You will never get fatigue reading this book no matter you love biology or not.

If you want to know about human body mechanism and biological world without being bored this book can be a good option.

[Ragheb · Rating 5 out of 5]

لا تنتهي الاقتباسات التي يمكن أن تقتبسها من هذا الكتاب خصوصاً لطلاب المرحلة المتوسّطة
أتمنى لو يصبح هذا الكتاب من المقررات الدراسية

[Mulham Tabbakh · Rating 5 out of 5]

من أمتع كتب العلوم التي يمكن للطالب في المرحلة الأعدادية أن يقرأه... قرأته مرات ومرات ومرات... بدون ملل!

[Mohamed Abdel-Wahed · Rating 2 out of 5]

good book

[Tamer · Rating 3 out of 5]

كتاب نادر وخاصة الترجمة العربية
الترجمة جيدة، لكن المعلومات بسيطة وليست طريفة جدا
كما هو عنوان الكتاب

[Jeeva · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a treasure trove of information about a great variety of animals!! It is a tragedy that this book is out of print.

[Raihan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good encyclopedic book to know about human and animal kingdom, with full of amazing information and illustration.

[Helen Povnikova]

good

[Ahmed Atif Abrar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some thought-provoking information.
But not well-translated. I am gonna read the revised Bengali (from Russian) translation.