Efficiency and economy in animal physiology /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Society of Zoologists
Other Authors: Blake, R. W. (Robert William), 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.