02124cam a2200301 i 4500 509086867 TxAuBib 20211103120000.0 210507s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021019011 9781616208936 HRD 26.95 1616208937 HRD 26.95 TxAuBib rda Schutt, Bill. Pump [BOOK] : a natural history of the heart / Bill Schutt ; illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021. 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. In this look at the hearts of animals—from fish to bats to humans—American Museum of Natural History zoologist Bill Schutt tells an incredible story of evolution and scientific progress. We join Schutt on a tour from the origins of circulation, still evident in microorganisms today, to the tiny hardworking pumps of worms, to the golf-cart-size hearts of blue whales. We visit beaches where horseshoe crabs are being harvested for their blood, which has properties that can protect humans from deadly illnesses. We learn that when temperatures plummet, some frog hearts can freeze solid for weeks, resuming their beat only after a spring thaw. And we journey with Schutt through human history, too, as philosophers and scientists hypothesize, often wrongly, about what makes our ticker tick. Schutt traces humanity’s cardiac fascination from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, who believed that the heart contains the soul, all the way up to modern-day laboratories, where scientists use animal hearts and even plants as the basis for many of today’s cutting-edge therapies. Provided by publisher. 20211103. Heart. Heart. Anatomy. Wynne, Patricia, illustrator.