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Invertebrate Biology - A Functional Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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Invertebrate Biology - A Functional Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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Courses on the invertebrates have two principal aims: (1) to
introduce students to the diversity of animal life and (2) to make
them aware that organisms are marvellously integrated systems with
evolutionary pasts and ecological presents. This text is concerned
exclusively with the second aim and assumes that the reader will
already know something about the diversity and classification of
invertebrates. Concepts of whole-organism function, metabolism and
adaptation form the core of the subject-matter and this is also
considered in an ecological setting. Hence, the approach is
multi-disciplinary, drawing from principles normally restricted to
comparative morphology and physiology ,ecology and evolutionary
biology. Invertebrate courses, as with all others in a science
curriculum, also have another aim - to make students aware of the
general methods of science. And these I take to be associated with
the so-called hypothetico deductive programme. Here, therefore, I
make a conscious effort to formulate simple, some might say naive,
hypotheses and to confront them with quantitative data from the
real world. There are, for example, as many graphs in the book as
illustrations of animals. My aim, though, has not been to test out
the principles of Darwinism, but rather to sharpen our focus on
physiological adaptations, given the assumption that Darwinism is
approximately correct. Whether or not I succeed remains for the
reader to decide.
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