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Science 19 April 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5567, p. 473
DOI: 10.1126/science.1070910
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PHYSIOLOGY:
How Molecules Make Organisms Work

A review by Pat Willmer

Biochemical Adaptation Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution
Peter W. Hochachka and George N. Somero
Oxford University Press, New York, 2002. 478 pp. $80, £62.50. ISBN 0-19-511702-6. Paper, $40, £29.50. ISBN 0-19-511703-4.

Hochachka and Somero examine how widespread biochemical systems have been modified to function throughout the broad range of environmental conditions that Earth's biota experiences, and they discuss the processes involved in the development of novel physiological functions.
The author is in the School of Biology, Bute Building, University of St. Andrews, Queen's Terrace, Fife KY16 9TS, UK. E-mail: pgw{at}st-andrews.ac.uk

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