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Animal Locomotion: Physical Principles and Adaptations is a professional-level, state of the art review and reference summarizing the current understanding of macroscopic metazoan animal movement. The comparative biophysics, biomechanics and bioengineering of swimming, flying and terrestrial locomotion are placed in contemporary frameworks of biodiversity, evolutionary process, and modern research methods, including mathematical analysis. The intended primary audience is advanced-level students and researchers primarily interested in and trained in mathematics, physical sciences and engineering. Although not encyclopedic in its coverage, anyone interested in organismal biology, functional morphology, organ systems and ecological physiology, physiological ecology, molecular biology, molecular genetics and systems biology should find this book useful.



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Basics. Animal Biodiversity: Origins and Evolution. Swimming. Natural Flight. Terrestrial Locomotion.

Animal Locomotion Physical Principles and

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      Publisher CRC Press
      Published 22 May 2017
      ISBN-13 9781138035768
      978-1138035768
      ISBN-10 1138035769
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      Zoology and animal sciences Environmental science, engineering and technology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Animal Locomotion: Physical Principles and Adaptations is a professional-level, state of the art review and reference summarizing the current understanding of macroscopic metazoan animal movement. The comparative biophysics, biomechanics and bioengineering of swimming, flying and terrestrial locomotion are placed in contemporary frameworks of biodiversity, evolutionary process, and modern research methods, including mathematical analysis. The intended primary audience is advanced-level students and researchers primarily interested in and trained in mathematics, physical sciences and engineering. Although not encyclopedic in its coverage, anyone interested in organismal biology, functional morphology, organ systems and ecological physiology, physiological ecology, molecular biology, molecular genetics and systems biology should find this book useful.



      Table of Contents

      Basics. Animal Biodiversity: Origins and Evolution. Swimming. Natural Flight. Terrestrial Locomotion.

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