Abstract

1. Efficiency, effectiveness, perfection, optimization: their use in understanding vertebrate evolution C. Gans 2. On the efficiency of energy transformations in cells and animals R. W. Blake 3. Adapting skeletal muscle to be efficient C. J. Pennycuick 4. Efficiency and other criteria for evaluating the quality of structural biomaterials J. M. Gosline 5. Efficiency and optimization in the design of skeletal support systems A. A. A . Biewener and J. E. A. Bertram 6. Efficiency in aquatic locomotion: limitations from single cells to animals T. Daniel 7. The concepts of efficiency and economy in land locomotion R. J. Full 8. Respiration in air-breathing vertebrates: optimisation and efficiency in design and function W. K. Milsom 9. Cardiac energetics and the design of vertebrate arterial systems D. R. Jones 10. An evolutionary perspective on the concept of efficiency how does function evolve? G. V. Lauder.

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