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Understanding Body Shapes of Animals (Record no. 100744)

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ISBN 9783030276683
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Personal author Preuschoft, Holger.
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Title Understanding Body Shapes of Animals
Subtitle : Shapes as mechanical constructions and Systems moving on minimal energy level /
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Edition statement 1st ed. 2022.
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Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Springer International Publishing :
-- Imprint: Springer,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2022.
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Physical description XIV, 581 p. 222 illus.
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Contents Chapter1: Why this book? -- Chapter2: Head -- Chapter3: Axial skeleton in aquatic animals -- Chapter4: Axial skeleton and muscle arrangement in terrestrial tetrapods -- Chapter5: What have the extremities of "lower tetrapods" in common? And Why? -- Chapter6: Birds -- Chapter7: Land-living mammals -- Chapter8: Primates, the group including humans -- Chapter9: Evolution of hominids -- Chapter10: Summary, Conclusions and Open questions.
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Abstract This book discusses how and why animals evolved into particular shapes. The book identifies the physical laws which decide over the evolutionary (selective) value of body shape and morphological characters. Comparing the mechanical necessities with morphological details, the author attempts to understand how evolution works, and which sorts of limitations are set by selection. The book explains morphological traits in more biomechanical detail without getting lost in physics, or in methods. Most emphasis is placed on the proximate question, namely the identification of the mechanical stresses which must be sustained by the respective body parts, when they move the body or its parts against resistance. In the first part of the book the focus is on 'primitive' animals and later on the emphasis shifts to highly specialized mammals. Readers will learn more about living and fossil animals. A section of the book is dedicated to human evolution but not to produce anotherevolutionary tree, nor to refine a former one, but to contribute to answering the question: "WHY early humans have developed their particular body shape".
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Subject term Anatomy.
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Subject term Paleontology .
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Subject term Zoology.
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Subject term Evolution (Biology).
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Subject term Physiology.
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Subject term Mechanics.
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Subject term Anatomy.
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Subject term Paleontology.
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Subject term Zoology.
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Subject term Evolutionary Biology.
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Subject term Animal Physiology.
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Subject term Classical Mechanics.
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        Hillingdon Hospitals Library Services (Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation) Hillingdon Hospitals Library Services (Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation) Online 02/05/2024 Springer BiomedLifeSc   02/05/2024 https://go.openathens.net/redirector/nhs?url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27668-3 02/05/2024 Electronic book
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