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Principles of Animal Design: The Optimization and Symmorphosis Debate
International Conference on Comparative Physiology
In this book, eminent biologists discuss whether animals are designed according to the same rules that engineers use in building machines; namely that materials and energy are used economically while achieving a high level of performance. This is controversial because, although there is evidence for this idea, evolution tells us that animals are not 'engineered' but result by natural selection.
336 pages, 74 b/w illus. 7 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 28, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521586672 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 227 × 17 mm · 444 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Bolis, Liana (Universita degli Studi di Milano) |
| Editor | Taylor, C. Richard |
| Editor | Weibel, Ewald R. (Universitat Bern, Switzerland) |
