Principles of Animal Design
Subtitle: The Optimization and Symmorphosis Debate
Contributors: Ewald R. Weibel (Editor); C. Richard Taylor (Editor); Liana Bolis (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521586672
Subjects: Animal physiology; Life sciences: general issues; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Congresses; Science; Physiology; Morphology (Animals); Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Morphology (Animals)--Philosophy--Congresses; Science / Developmental Biology; Adaptation (Biology); Evolution (Biology); Philosophy
First sentence: The default hypothesis in physiology, generally used but rarely admitted, is the presumption that structures are ordinarily associated with specific functions.