Principles of Animal Design: The Optimization and Symmorphosis Debate - Rilegato

 
9780521583701: Principles of Animal Design: The Optimization and Symmorphosis Debate

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The book discusses whether animals are designed according to the same rules that engineers use in building machines.

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"...rich in examples of how functionally integrated systems provide evidence for or against the theory of symmorphosis. It is, moreover, a useful source of data for those interested in issues of constraint and optimization in animal design." Evolutionary Anthropology

Descrizione del libro

In this book, eminent biologists discuss whether animals are designed according to the same rules that engineers use in building machines; namely that materials and energy are used economically while achieving a high level of performance. This is controversial because, although there is evidence for this idea, evolution tells us that animals are not 'engineered' but result by natural selection.

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9780521586672: Principles of Animal Design: The Optimization And Symmorphosis Debate

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521586674 ISBN 13:  9780521586672
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1998
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