Animal Electricity: How We Learned That The Body And Brain Are Electric Machines

Like all cellular organisms humans run on electricity. Cells work like batteries: slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes, caused by ions moving in and out of cells, result in sensation, movement, awareness, and thinkingùthe things we associate with being alive. Robert Campenot offers an accessible overview of animal electricity.

• | Author: Robert B. Campenot
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 15, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Science
• | ISBN-10: 0674736818
• | ISBN-13: 9780674736818