The Reptile Ear: Its Structure and Function: 5347 (Princeton Legacy Library) - Image 1

Price loading...

Princeton University Press The Reptile Ear: Its Structure and Function: 5347 (Princeton Legacy Library)

Name: The Reptile Ear: Its Structure and Function: 5347 (Princeton Legacy Library)
Brand: Princeton University Press

Illnesses & Conditions

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

In this definitive work, Ernest Glen Wever establishes the evolutionary importance of the reptile ear as the origin of the higher type of auditory apparatus shared by man and the mammals. Tracing the development of the auditory receptor in the living reptiles, he examines the use of a variety of mechanisms and principles of action by that receptor. While some of the material in this book has appeared previously in journal articles, most of it is presented here for the first time.Basing this study on his twenty years of research at Princeton's Auditory Research Laboratories, Professor Wever treats in anatomical and functional detail the auditory mechanism in about 250 species and subspecies of reptiles. The anatomical treatment rests on dissections and histological examinations of the ears in serial section, and portrays the relevant features in drawings that represent particular views of reconstructions. The author evaluates the performance of thesse ears electrophysiologically, in terms of the electrical potentials of the cochlea, paying particular attention to problems of the transmission of vibrations inward to the cochlea and the actions there in stimulating the sensory cells.Professor Wever finds that the cochlea emerged independently from the non-auditory labyrinth in three different vertebrate groups: fishes, amphibians, and reptiles. It was among the reptiles, however, that the vertebrate ear took on a more advanced configuration from which it further evolved along separate lineages in the birds and mammals.Ernest Glen Wever is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Product Specifications

Brand: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0691656258
Category: Books > Subjects > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Health Issues > Illnesses & Conditions
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 29 January 2019
Listed Since: 15 January 2019

Barcode

No barcode data available

Princeton University Press The Reptile Ear: Its Structure and Function: 5347 (Princeton Legacy Library)

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Progress in Sensory Physiology: 2

The Amphibian Ear (Princeton Legacy Library): 45

The Amphibian Ear: 45 (Princeton Legacy Library)

Auditory Development and Plasticity: In Honor of Edwin W Rubel: 64 (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 64)

Internal Ear Angioarchitectonic of Serpents: 54/6 (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 54/6)

Springer - The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (Science Text)

Evolution of the Vertebrate Auditory System: 22 (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 22)

Hearing - the Brain and Auditory Communication in Marsupials: Vol 36 (Zoophysiology)

Rodent Bioacoustics: 67 (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 67)

Evolution of the Vertebrate Ear: Evidence from the Fossil Record: 59 (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 59)

Comparative Anatomy of the External and Middle Ear of Palaeognathous Birds: 131 (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 131)

Springer Biosonar: 51 - Springer Handbook of Auditory Research

The Biology of the Naked Mole–Rat: 54 (Monographs in Behavior and Ecology)

Cochlear Anatomy via Microdissection with Clinical Implications: An Atlas

The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat (Monographs in Behavior and Ecology): 54

Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment (Otolaryngology Research Advances)

CRC Press - Sensing Sound: Evolutionary Neurobiology Book

Mammalian Vestibular Physiology

Peripheral Hearing Mechanisms in Reptiles and Birds: 26 (Zoophysiology, 26)

Deafness: 47 (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 47)

Mathematical Evolutionary Theory (Princeton Legacy Library): 948

Snakes: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Princeton University Press - Mathematical Evolutionary Theory: 948

Neural Correlates of Auditory Cognition: 45 (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 45)