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Vertebrate biomechanics and evolution / [edited by] V.L. Bels, J-P. Gasc, A. Casinos.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Experimental biology reviewsPublisher: Oxford : BIOS Scientific, 2003Description: xi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1859962386
  • 9781859962381
  • 1859962874
  • 9781859962879
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 596.138
Contents:
Contributors -- Preface -- Pt. I. Theory and Aquatic Animals -- 1. Biomechanics: a tool for understanding the evolution of vertebrates -- 2. Achievements and limitations in the mechanics of extinct animals -- 3. Selection experiments: an under-utilized tool in biomechanics and organismal biology -- 4. The importance of functional plasticity in the design and control of the vertebrate musculoskeletal system -- 5. Biomechanics and evolutionary space: a case study -- 6. Respiration in elasmobranchs: new models of aquatic ventilation -- 7. Evaluating suction feeding performance in fishes: implications for evolutionary diversification -- 8. Experimental hydrodynamics and evolution: caudal fin locomotion in fishes -- 9. Habitat, body design and the swimming performance of fish -- 10. Constraint and convergence in the evolution of salamander feeding -- Pt. II. Terrestrial and Avian Animals -- 11. Biomechanics and evolution in terrestrial and aerial vertebrates -- 12. Evaluating the complexity of the trophic system in Reptilia -- 13. 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 -- 14. Biomechanics of the avian skull -- 15. Integrating kinetic and kinematic approaches to the analysis of terrestrial locomotion -- 16. Evolution of lizard locomotion: context and constraint -- 17. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny? Locomotion in children and other primitive hominids -- 18. Origins and evolution of diversity in the avian wing -- 19. The intellectual challenge of biomechanics and evolution.
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"The initial basis for this book was the organisation of a symposium 'Biomechanics and evolution' held at the University of Canterbury in 2001"-Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributors -- Preface -- Pt. I. Theory and Aquatic Animals -- 1. Biomechanics: a tool for understanding the evolution of vertebrates -- 2. Achievements and limitations in the mechanics of extinct animals -- 3. Selection experiments: an under-utilized tool in biomechanics and organismal biology -- 4. The importance of functional plasticity in the design and control of the vertebrate musculoskeletal system -- 5. Biomechanics and evolutionary space: a case study -- 6. Respiration in elasmobranchs: new models of aquatic ventilation -- 7. Evaluating suction feeding performance in fishes: implications for evolutionary diversification -- 8. Experimental hydrodynamics and evolution: caudal fin locomotion in fishes -- 9. Habitat, body design and the swimming performance of fish -- 10. Constraint and convergence in the evolution of salamander feeding -- Pt. II. Terrestrial and Avian Animals -- 11. Biomechanics and evolution in terrestrial and aerial vertebrates -- 12. Evaluating the complexity of the trophic system in Reptilia -- 13. 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 -- 14. Biomechanics of the avian skull -- 15. Integrating kinetic and kinematic approaches to the analysis of terrestrial locomotion -- 16. Evolution of lizard locomotion: context and constraint -- 17. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny? Locomotion in children and other primitive hominids -- 18. Origins and evolution of diversity in the avian wing -- 19. The intellectual challenge of biomechanics and evolution.

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