Architecture in Living Structure

ISBN-13: 9789024732401 / Angielski / Twarda / 1985 / 184 str.

G. a. Zweers; P. Dullemeijer;Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft

Spis treści

Diversity of Functional Morphological Explanation.- Principles of Self-Generation and Self-Maintenance.- Architecture of Tissue Cells.- On the Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Transformations.- Mechanical Constraints Canalizing the Evolutionary Transformation of Tetrapod Limbs.- The Legs of Ostriches (Struthio) and Moas (Pachyornis).- Trends in the Functional Morphology and Sensorimotor Control of Feeding Behavior in Salamanders: An Example of the Role of Internal Dynamics in Evolution.- Qualitative and Quantitative Explanation of the Forms of Heat Sensitive Organs in Snakes.- Proportions of the Jaw Mechanism of Cichlid Fishes Chances and Their Meaning.- Jaw Protrusion, an Optimization of the Feeding Apparatus of Teleosts?.- Constructional Morphology: The Analysis of Constraints in Evolution Dedicated to A. Seilacher in Honour of His 60. Birthday.- Greek Classicism in Living Structure? Some Deductive Pathways in Animal Morphology.- Some Methodological Remarks.- Errata.