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001447914 1001_ $$aPreuschoft, Holger.
001447914 24510 $$aUnderstanding body shapes of animals :$$bshapes as mechanical constructions and systems moving on minimal energy level /$$cHolger Preuschoft.
001447914 260__ $$aCham, Switzerland :$$bSpringer,$$c2022.
001447914 300__ $$a1 online resource
001447914 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001447914 5050_ $$aChapter1: 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.
001447914 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
001447914 520__ $$aThis 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 another evolutionary tree, nor to refine a former one, but to contribute to answering the question: WHY early humans have developed their particular body shape".
001447914 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 14, 2022).
001447914 650_0 $$aAnimal mechanics.
001447914 650_0 $$aPhysiology.
001447914 650_0 $$aAnimals$$xAdaptation.
001447914 650_0 $$aEvolutionary developmental biology.
001447914 655_0 $$aElectronic books.
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