TY  - BOOK
AU  - Preuschoft,Holger
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Understanding Body Shapes of Animals: : Shapes as mechanical constructions and Systems moving on minimal energy level 
SN  - 9783030276683
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Anatomy
KW  - Paleontology 
KW  - Zoology
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Physiology
KW  - Mechanics
KW  - Paleontology
KW  - Evolutionary Biology
KW  - Animal Physiology
KW  - Classical Mechanics
N1  - 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
N2  - 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"
UR  - #gotoholdings
ER  -