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A Brief History of Comparative Respiratory Physiology: Some Ideas and Their Proponents

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Respiratory Physiology

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Comparative physiology is a specialty that makes a virtue out of being unspecialized. It is a strategy, not a technique that depends on new methods for its advances. The comparative physiologist looks for similarities in differences, differences in similarities, in an examination of a wide variety of animals and of common functions that may be implemented by different mechanisms, or of similar mechanisms that may execute different functions. Scientists, in the terminology of Freeman Dyson, can be classified as diversifiers—those who search out details and emphasize differences; and unifiers—those who seek to discover the underlying order that a group of things have in common. Comparative physiologists fit the definition of both types at the same time.

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