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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521583701
Subjects: Animal Physiology; Life sciences: general issues; Physiology; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Organic Evolution; Science/Mathematics; Science; Philosophy; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Morphology (Animals)--Philosophy--Congresses; Science / Developmental Biology; Adaptation (Biology); Congresses; Evolution (Biology); Morphology (Animals)
First sentence: The default hypothesis in physiology, generally used but rarely admitted, is the presumption that structures are ordinarily associated with specific functions.