Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Bernard , Claude (1974-06-01), Lectures on the phenomena of life common to animals and plants, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, Retrieved on 2012-01-13Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: nature Memes
13 JAN 2012
Constant and Free Life
Constant, or free, life is the third form of life; it belongs to the most highly organized animals. In it, life is not suspended in any circumstance, it unrolls along a constant course, apparently indifferent to the variations in the cosmic environment, or to the changes in the material conditions that surround the animal. Organs, apparatus, and tissues function in an apparently uniform manner, without their activity undergoing those considerable variations exhibited by animals with an oscill...
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Mammals and other animals that maintain a constant environment within themselves are free of the changes to the world outside them.
