Comparative physiology
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Comparative physiology is a subdiscipline of physiology that studies and exploits the diversity of functional characteristics of various kinds of organisms. It is closely related to evolutionary physiology and environmental physiology. Many universities offer undergraduate courses that cover comparative aspects of animal physiology. According to Clifford Ladd Prosser, "Comparative Physiology is not so much a defined discipline as a viewpoint, a philosophy."
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See also
- August Krogh
- Claude Bernard
- Ecophysiology
- Evolutionary physiology
- Human physiology
- John Speakman
- Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
- Krogh Principle
- Lancelot Hogben
- Peter Hochachka
- Phylogenetic comparative methods
- Physiology
- Raymond B. Huey
- Theodore Garland, Jr.
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