Many birds and mammals drastically reduce their energy expenditure during times of cold
exposure, food shortage, or drought, by temporarily abandoning euthermia, ie the …

The whole‐body (tachymetabolic) endothermy seen in modern birds and mammals is long
held to have evolved independently in each group, a reasonable assumption when it was …

Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By
aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated, are likely to affect …

In modern eutherian (placental) mammals, brown adipose tissue (BAT) evolved as a
specialized thermogenic organ that is responsible for adaptive non-shivering thermogenesis …

Understanding the heat tolerances of small mammals and birds has taken on new urgency
with the advent of climate change. Here, we review heat tolerance limits, pathways of …

Humans prefer to live within their thermal comfort or neutral zone, which they create by
making shelters, wearing clothing and, more recently, by regulating their ambient …

Circadian rhythms influence most of our life activities, notably getting up and going to sleep
every day. The new edition of this book delves into the mechanisms surrounding how these …

The development of sustained, long-term endothermy was one of the major transitions in the
evolution of vertebrates. Thermogenesis in endotherms does not only occur via shivering or …

This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a
strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis …

This article reviews the literature on the circadian rhythms of body temperature and whole-
organism metabolism. The two rhythms are first described separately, each description …