Vertebrate biomechanics and evolution
in children and other primitive hominids / N.C. Heglund and B. Schepens -- Origins and evolution of diversity in the avian wing / J.M.V. Rayner and G.J. Dyke -- The intellectual challenge of biomechanics and evolution / G.V. Lauder.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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BIOS Scientific
2003
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| Schriftenreihe: | Experimental biology reviews
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | in children and other primitive hominids / N.C. Heglund and B. Schepens -- Origins and evolution of diversity in the avian wing / J.M.V. Rayner and G.J. Dyke -- The intellectual challenge of biomechanics and evolution / G.V. Lauder. Biomechanics : a tool for understanding the evolution of vertebrates / A. Casinos, J-P. Gasc and V.L. Bels -- Achievements and limitations in the mechanics of extinct animals / R. McNeill Alexander -- Selection experiments : an under-utilized tool in biomechanics and organismal biology / T. Garland, Jr. -- The importance of functional plasticity in the design and control of the vertebrate musculoskeletal system / G. Gillis and A.A. Biewener -- Biomechanics and evolutionary space : a case study / K.V. Kardong -- Respiration in elasmobranchs : new models of aquatic ventilation / A.P. Summers and L.A. Ferry-Graham -- Evaluating suction feeding performance in fishes : implications for evolutionary diversification / L.A. Ferry-Graham and P.C. Wainwright -- Experimental hydrodynamics and evolution : caudal fin locomotion in fishes / G.V. Lauder ... [et al.] -- Habitat, body design and the swimming performance of fish / P. Domenici -- Constraint and convergence in the evolution of salamander feeding / S.M. Deban -- Biomechanics and evolution in terrestrial and aerial vertebrates / J-P. Gasc, A. Casinos and V.L. Bels -- Evaluating the complexity of the trophic system in Reptilia / V.L. Bels -- The comparative biomechanics of a prey-predator relationship : the adaptive morphologies of the feeding apparatus of Australian black-cockatoos and their foods as a basis for the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the Psittaciformes / D.G. Homberger -- Biomechanics of the avian skull / R.G. Bout -- Integrating kinetic and kinematic approaches to the analysis of terrestrial locomotion / S.M. Reilly and A. Bicknevicius -- Evolution of lizard locomotion : context and constraint / R. Van Damme ... [et al.] -- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny? Locomotion |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben "The initial basis for this book was the organisation of a symposium 'Biomechanics and evolution' held at the University of Canterbury in 2001"-Pref |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 332 S Ill., graph. Darst 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 1859962386 1-85996-238-6 |