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Dieses Kompendium fasst viele Erkenntnisse eines Forscherlebens zusammen: Als Professor für Anatomie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum ist Holger Preuschoft über Jahrzehnte der Frage nachgegangen, weshalb Menschen ihre besondere, von allen anderen Tieren abweichende Körpergestalt haben. Gleichzeitig war er schon als Jugendlicher von Pferden fasziniert, von ihrer Schönheit und ihren bemerkenswerten Fähigkeiten in der Fortbewegung. Sein eigenes Pferd Patrik hat Preuschoft bis zu M-Lektionen ausgebildet - und als Wissenschaftler in der Untersuchung dieser Tiere Pionierarbeit geleistet.Die...

This book discusses how and why animals evolved into particular shapes. The book identifies the physical laws which decide over the evolutionary (selective) value of body shape and morphological characters. Comparing the mechanical necessities with morphological details, the author attempts to understand how evolution works, and which sorts of limitations are set by selection. The book explains morphological traits in more biomechanical detail without getting lost in physics, or in methods. Most emphasis is placed on the proximate question, namely the identification of the mechanical...

The hand commonly is considered to have exerted great influence on the evolution of typically human characteristics, like upright posture, stereoscopic vision, -manipulative- handling of parts of the environment. The German term -Begreifen-, which is commonly used for the understanding of complex relationships in a generalised, abstract sense, always implies the original meaning of seizing objects with the aid of the hands. The hands are also of greatest importance for the survival of the other, non-human primates. Hands are absolutely essential for locomotion in an arboreal habitat, and the...