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Evolutionary Biomechanics: Selection, Phylogeny, and Constraint

Evolutionary Biomechanics: Selection, Phylogeny, and Constraint

Evolutionary Biomechanics: Selection, Phylogeny, and Constraint Paperback / softback - 2014

by Graham Taylor

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Paperback / softback. New. Recent research in biomechanics is increasingly revealing a set of special cases where universal physical laws constrain the trajectories and, more controversially, even the endpoints of the evolutionary process. For the first time this book brings together a broad range of examples from the latest research in evolutionary biomechanics to examine this phenomenon.
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  • Title Evolutionary Biomechanics: Selection, Phylogeny, and Constraint
  • Author Graham Taylor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Us Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press (UK), Oxford, UK
  • Publication date 2014-03-16
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780198566380
  • ISBN 9780198566380 / 0198566387
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 0.4 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Evolution, Biomechanics
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013945536
  • Dewey Decimal Code 576.8
  • Quantity available 10

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From the publisher

Evolutionary biomechanics is the study of evolution through the analysis of biomechanical systems. Its unique advantage is the precision with which physical constraints and performance can be predicted from first principles. Instead of reviewing the entire breadth of the biomechanical literature, a few key examples are explored in depth as vehicles for discussing fundamental concepts, analytical techniques, and evolutionary theory. Each chapter develops a conceptual theme, developing the underlying theory and techniques required for analyses in evolutionary biomechanics. Examples from terrestrial biomechanics, metabolic scaling, and bird flight are used to analyse how physics constrains the design space that natural selection is free to explore, and how adaptive evolution finds solutions to the trade-offs between multiple complex conflicting performance objectives.

Evolutionary Biomechanics is suitable for graduate level students and professional researchers in the fields of biomechanics, physiology, evolutionary biology and palaeontology. It will also be of relevance and use to researchers in the physical sciences and engineering.

About the author

Graham Taylor, University Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, UK, Adrian Thomas, Professor of Biomechanics, University of Oxford, UK

Graham Taylor is University Lecturer in Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, with a particular focus on the dynamics and control of bird and insect flight.

Adrian Thomas is Professor of Biomechanics at the University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, and works on Biomechanics and Evolution, with a particular focus on animal flight and aerodynamics. He does aerodynamics consultancy work with drone and paraglider manufacturers and flies the wings he helps design.

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