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024	7		_a10.1007/978-3-030-27668-3 _2doi
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100	1		_aPreuschoft, Holger _eautor _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
245	1	0	_aUnderstanding Body Shapes of Animals _bShapes as mechanical constructions and Systems moving on minimal energy level _cby Holger Preuschoft
250			_a1st edition 2022
264		1	_aCham _bSpringer International Publishing _c2022
300			_a1 recurso en línea (XIV, 581 páginas) _b222 illus
336			_atexto _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aelectrónico _bc _2rdamedia
338			_arecurso electrónico _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_aarchivo de texto _bPDF
505	0		_aChapter1: Why this book? -- Chapter2: Head -- Chapter3: Axial skeleton in aquatic animals -- Chapter4: Axial skeleton and muscle arrangement in terrestrial tetrapods -- Chapter5: What have the extremities of "lower tetrapods" in common? And Why? -- Chapter6: Birds -- Chapter7: Land-living mammals -- Chapter8: Primates, the group including humans -- Chapter9: Evolution of hominids -- Chapter10: Summary, Conclusions and Open questions.
520			_aThis 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 stresses which must be sustained by the respective body parts, when they move the body or its parts against resistance. In the first part of the book the focus is on 'primitive' animals and later on the emphasis shifts to highly specialized mammals. Readers will learn more about living and fossil animals. A section of the book is dedicated to human evolution but not to produce another evolutionary tree, nor to refine a former one, but to contribute to answering the question: "WHY early humans have developed their particular body shape".
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783030276676
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783030276690
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783030276706
856	4	0	_uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/universidadeuropea.es?url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27668-3 _zAcceso a este recurso digital (usuarios Universidad Europea de Madrid)
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