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Mechanics of Animal Locomotion

by Alexander, Robert

ISBN13: 9783642766954
ISBN10: 3642766951

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This is a comprehensive account of the mechanics of animal locomotion; it deals with crawling, running, swimming, and flight of organisms ranging fromprotozoans and jelly fishes to whales and humans. It also shows how muscles function in locomotion, how energy is used and how animals adapt their locomotion to the special circumstances of their lives.

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ISBN:: 9783642766954
Binding:: Trade Paperback
Publication date:: 12/27/2011
Publisher:: Springer
Series info:: Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology
Language:: English
Pages:: 304
Height:: .70IN
Width:: 6.70IN
Series:: Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology
Series Number:: 11
Number of Units:: 1
Series Volume:: 11
Author:: D. Grunbaum
Author:: T.M. Casey
Author:: A.I. Houston
Author:: C. Jordan
Author:: J.L. van Leeuwen
Author:: T. L. Daniel
Author:: G.R. Spedding
Oth:: Robert Alexander
Author:: T. McGeer
Author:: M.E. DeMont
Author:: R. McN Alexander
Author:: M. B. Bennett
Oth:: T. M. Casey
Subject:: Neurosciences
Subject:: Biomechanics
Subject:: Fortbewegung
Subject:: Chemistry-Biochemistry
Subject:: movement, animals
Subject:: locomotion, animals
Subject:: Running
Subject:: Biomedical and Life Sciences
Subject:: Biomechanik
Subject:: Biochemistry, general
Subject:: crawling
Subject:: Laufen
Subject:: Bewegung
Subject:: Swimming
Subject:: Language, literature and biography
Subject:: Fliegen, Das
Subject:: Biophysics and Biological Physics
Subject:: Schwimmen
Subject:: Kriechen
Subject:: Muskel

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