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Following are some of my more scientifically-inclined review articles, where I have more freedom to go off the deep end.
J S Turner. 2007. Homeostasis, complexity, and the problem of biological design. In: Explorations in Complexity Thinking: Pre-Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Complexity and Philosophy. Kurt A Richardson and Paul Cilliers (eds). Stellenbosch, February 2007. ISCE Publishing, Mansfield, MA. Pp 131-147. [pdf]

J S Turner, E Marais, M Vinte, A Mudengi, W L Park. 2006. Termites, water and soils. Agricola 16: 40-45. [pdf]

J S Turner. 2006. Termites as mediators of the water economy of arid savanna ecosystems. In: Dryland Ecohydrology, Amilcare Porporato and Paolo d’Odorico (eds). Kluwer. [pdf]

J S Turner. 2005. Extended physiology of an insect-built structure. American Entomologist 51(1): 36-38. [pdf]

J S Turner. 2004. Gaia, the extended organism and emergent homeostasis. Chapter 5 in Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century. Stephen H Schneider, James R Miller, Eileen Crist and Penelope J Boston (eds). MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp 57-70. (Contribution to the American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Gaia 2000, Valencia, Spain, June 2000.) [pdf]

J S Turner. 2004. Extended phenotypes and extended organisms. Biology and Philosophy 19(3): 327-352. (a special issue on the 20th anniversary of the publication of Richard Dawkins’ The Extended Phenotype. [pdf]

J S Turner. 2003. Trace fossils and extended organisms: A physiological perspective. New Interpretations of Complex Trace Fossils: A special volume of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 192: 15-31. [pdf]

J S Turner. 2002. Maintenance of egg temperature. In: Avian Incubation: Behaviour, Environment And Evolution, D C Deeming (ed). Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp 118-142. [pdf]

J S Turner. 1994. Time and energy in the intermittent incubation of birds’ eggs. Israel Journal of Zoology 40: 519-540. [pdf]

J S Turner. 1991. The thermal energetics of incubated birds’ eggs. In: D C Deeming and M W J Ferguson, eds., Egg Incubation: Its Effects on Embryonic Development in Birds and Reptiles. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 117-145. [pdf]

B T Firth, J S Turner and C L Ralph. 1989. Thermoregulatory behaviour in two species of iguanid lizards (Crotaphytus collaris and Sauromalus obesus): Diel variation and the effect of pinealectomy. Journal of Comparative Physiology 159B: 13-20. [pdf]

J S Turner. 1987. The cardiovascular control of heat exchange: Consequences of body size. American Zoologist 27: 69-79. [pdf]

B T Firth and J S Turner. 1982. Sensory, neural and hormonal aspects of thermoregulation. In: C Gans and F H Pough, eds., Biology of the Reptilia vol. 12. Academic Press, London. pp. 213-274. [pdf]

C L Ralph, B T Firth and J S Turner. 1979. The role of the pineal complex in ectotherm thermoregulation. American Zoologist 19: 273-293. [pdf]