Efficiency and economy in animal physiology /
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1991.
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Table of 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 and 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.