Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Efficiency, effectiveness, perfection, optimization: their use in understanding vertebrate evolution
- 2 On the efficiency of energy transformations in cells and animals
- 3 Adapting skeletal muscle to be efficient
- 4 Efficiency and other criteria for evaluating the quality of structural biomaterials
- 5 Efficiency and optimization in the design of skeletal support systems
- 6 Efficiency in aquatic locomotion: limitations from single cells to animals
- 7 The concepts of efficiency and economy in land locomotion
- 8 Respiration in air breathing vertebrates: optimization and efficiency in design and function
- 9 Cardiac energetics and the design of vertebrate arterial systems
- 10 An evolutionary perspective on the concept of efficiency: how does function evolve?
- Index
Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Efficiency, effectiveness, perfection, optimization: their use in understanding vertebrate evolution
- 2 On the efficiency of energy transformations in cells and animals
- 3 Adapting skeletal muscle to be efficient
- 4 Efficiency and other criteria for evaluating the quality of structural biomaterials
- 5 Efficiency and optimization in the design of skeletal support systems
- 6 Efficiency in aquatic locomotion: limitations from single cells to animals
- 7 The concepts of efficiency and economy in land locomotion
- 8 Respiration in air breathing vertebrates: optimization and efficiency in design and function
- 9 Cardiac energetics and the design of vertebrate arterial systems
- 10 An evolutionary perspective on the concept of efficiency: how does function evolve?
- Index
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- Efficiency and Economy in Animal Physiology , pp. 185 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992