Architecture in Living Structure

<em>Nachdrucked from ACTA BIOTHEORETICA, 34/2-4</em> 1985
ISBN: 978-90-247-3240-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dullemeijer, P.

Zweers, G.A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Diversity of Functional Morphological Explanation.- Principles of Self-Generation and Self-Maintenance.- Architecture of Tissue Cells.- On the Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Transformations.- Mechanical Constraints Canalizing the Evolutionary Transformation of Tetrapod Limbs.- The Legs of Ostriches (Struthio) and Moas (Pachyornis).- Trends in the Functional Morphology and Sensorimotor Control of Feeding Behavior in Salamanders: An Example of the Role of Internal Dynamics in Evolution.- Qualitative and Quantitative Explanation of the Forms of Heat Sensitive Organs in Snakes.- Proportions of the Jaw Mechanism of Cichlid Fishes Chances and Their Meaning.- Jaw Protrusion, an Optimization of the Feeding Apparatus of Teleosts?.- Constructional Morphology: The Analysis of Constraints in Evolution Dedicated to A. Seilacher in Honour of His 60. Birthday.- Greek Classicism in Living Structure? Some Deductive Pathways in Animal Morphology.- Some Methodological Remarks.- Errata.