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Efficiency and economy in animal physiology
- Title
- Efficiency and economy in animal physiology / edited by Robert W. Blake.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | QP33 .E44 1991 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 187 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- There is often confusion over the meaning and usage of terms such as efficiency, economy, effectiveness, optimization and perfection in biology. This book defines and discusses these concepts within a broad evolutionary perspective and considers how evolutionary pressures can affect the economy and efficiency of animals. Chapters consider biomaterials, skeletal systems, muscular function, aquatic and terrestrial locomotion, respiratory and cardiovascular systems. The result is a book of interest to all biologists, particularly those working in the fields of comparative physiology and evolutionary biology.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge environmental chemistry series
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge environmental chemistry series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- Based on the proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the American Society of Zoologists held in San Francisco, December 27th-30th.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Efficiency, effectiveness, perfection, optimization: their use in understanding vertebrate evolution / C. Gans -- On the efficiency of energy transformations in cells and animals / R.W. Blake -- Adapting skeletal muscle to be efficient / C.J. Pennycuick -- Efficiency and other criteria for evaluating the quality of structural biomaterials / J.M. Gosline -- Efficiency and optimization in the design of skeletal support systems / A.A. Biewener, J.E.A. Bertram -- Efficiency in aquatic locomotion: limitations from single cells to animals / T.L. Daniel -- The concepts of efficiency and economy in land locomotion / R.J. Full -- Respiration in air breathing vertebrates: optimization and efficiency in design and function / W.K. Milsom -- Cardiac energetics and the design of vertebrate arterial systems / D.R. Jones -- An evolutionary perspective on the concept of efficiency: how does function evolve? / G.V. Lauder.
- ISBN
- 052140066X
- 9780521400664
- LCCN
- 91009215
- OCLC
- ocm23212683
- 23212683
- SCSB-1942490
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library