Efficiency and Economy in Animal Physiology
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This book discusses the concepts of efficiency and economy and other similar terms as applied to animals from an evolutionary perspective.
List of contributorsPreface1Efficiency, effectiveness, perfection, optimization: their use in understanding vertebrate evolution12On the efficiency of energy transformations in cells and animals133Adapting skeletal muscle to be efficient334Efficiency and other criteria for evaluating the quality of structural biomaterials435Efficiency and optimization in the design of skeletal support systems656Efficiency in aquatic locomotion: limitations from single cells to animals837The concepts of efficiency and economy in land locomotion978Respiration in air breathing vertebrates: optimization and efficiency in design and function1339Cardiac energetics and the design of vertebrate arterial systems15910An evolutionary perspective on the concept of efficiency: how does function evolve?169Index185
