The Invertebrates: A New Synthesis - Softcover

Barnes, R. S. K.; Calow, Peter; Olive, P. J. W.; Golding, D. W.

 
9780632031276: The Invertebrates: A New Synthesis
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0632031271 ISBN 13: 9780632031276
Verlag: Blackwell Science Ltd, 1993

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The majority of undergraduate texts in invertebrate zoology fall into one of two categories. They either offer a systematic treatment of groups of animals phylum by phylum, or adopt a functional approach to the various invertebrate anatomical and physiological systems of the better known species. The Invertebrates: a New Synthesis is the first and only textbook to integrate both approaches and thus meet the modern teaching needs of the subject

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Most textbooks of invertebrate zoology follow either a systematic or a functional approach. The Invertebrates is the first book to synthesise and integrate both approaches, describing the range and diversity of invertebrates and the way they work.

The first half of the gook describes all the known phyla of invertebrates with living representatives, together with the animal-like protists. Rather than describe all the anatomical features of different types of animals, the book distils only those essential characteristics of each group with which the student should be familiar. Lists of diagnostic features permit comparison between the phyla; the diversity of body plans illustrated by line figures of the different forms.

The second half of the book concentrates on the unifying features of invertebrate functional anatomy, physiology and behaviour, describing how the invertebrates display a range of solutions to the problems of living and reproduction. Throughout, form and function are presented from an evolutionary viewpoint, in the light of the selective pressures that have influenced and continue to mould invertebrate biology.

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Verlag
Blackwell Science Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0632031271
ISBN 13 
9780632031276
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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