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A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics (Paperback, New)
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A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics (Paperback, New)
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A thorough understanding of the form, function, and design of
animals is essential to any working biologist's knowledge. In the
author's view, however, this fast-growing field of study can be
made much more exciting and accessible with a hands-on, practical
approach. This view is the basis for A Practical Guide to
Vertebrate Mechanics. This text can be considered an engineering
book for biologists. The emphasis is on vertebrates, and each topic
begins with a discussion of the underlying principles, followed
immediately by practical experiments and laboratory exercises. The
author begins with a refresher on scaling and measurement. This is
followed by three chapters on the mechanical properties of
materials--investigating elasticity, the strength of materials, and
how things break. This leads the discussion to animal
materials--bones, joints, muscles--which serve to illustrate
principles of structure and load, lubrication, physiology,
metabolism, and stamina. Finally, the systems are put in motion, as
we discuss terrestrial locomotion, flight, and swimming. What sets
this book apart from others on functional anatomy is the emphasis
on practical work. Many of the experiments are simple to conduct.
Detailed instructions for setting up the experiments are given in
an appendix, and sample results are included to guide the student.
A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics will form an important
part of undergraduate and beginning graduate courses for zoology,
anatomy, biomechanics, and paleontology students. Chris McGowan is
Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Toronto
and Curator in the Department of Palaeobiology at the Royal Ontario
Museum. Several of his previousbooks include, The Raptor and the
Lamb: Offense and Defense in the Living World (1997), Make Your Own
Dinosaur Out of Chicken Bones: Foolproof Instructions for Budding
Palaeontologists (1997), and Diatoms to Dinosaurs (1994).
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