Functional Vertebrate Morphology

✍ Scribed by Milton Hildebrand (editor); Dennis M. Bramble (editor); Karel F. Liem (editor); David B. Wake (editor)

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 440
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Chapter 1. Functional Adaptation in Skeletal Structures
Chapter 2. Body Support, Scaling, and Allometry
Chapter 3. Walking and Running
Chapter 4. Jumping and Leaping
Chapter 5. Climbing
Chapter 6. Digging of Quadrupeds
Chapter 7. Swimming
Chapter 8. Flying, Gliding, and Soaring
Chapter 9. Terrestrial Locomotion without Appendages
Chapter 10. Energetics and Locomotion
Chapter 11. Ventilation
Chapter 12. Aquatic Feeding in Lower Vertebrates
Chapter 13. Feeding Mechanisms of Lower Tetrapods
Chapter 14. Mastication, Food Transport, and Swallowing
Chapter 15. The Octavolateralis System
Chapter 16. The Vertebrate Eye
Chapter 17. Neural Control of Locomotion
Chapter 18. Morphology: Current Approaches and Concepts
References, Acknowledgments, Contributors, Index
References
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index