Welcome
After growing up in Philadelphia and finishing my undergraduate studies at University of Delaware, I moved to Michigan, where I've lived since. I studied physiology at the University of Michigan and have had a busy career doing teaching and research in the environmental physiology of animals. This is the study of "how animals work," emphasizing how they work when they are living naturally in their native environments.
As I've studied how animals work, I've happened on revelations that have sparked a lifetime of reflection. Whereas science sometimes resolves old mysteries, it certainly also adds new ones. Studies show, for instance, that people replace large portions of their bodily substance every month. Counting atoms, we are almost entirely restructured at the end of each decade, compared to the start. I'm working on fictional outlets to help explore what these facts may mean.
Feeling an urge to synthesize, I started writing texts in animal physiology in 1976, with publication of Comparative Physiology of Animals, An Environmental Approach, which became something of a classic in its time. By now, my fifth physiology book is on the market.
I'm also teaming up with David Hillis and others to create a thematically organized, concept-focused book for students starting their university study of biology. This book is intended as a refreshing alternative to the ponderous, encyclopedic tomes that have sadly become the norm as texts in general biology.