Mechanical constraints canalizing the evolutionary transformation of tetrapod limbs

Acta Biotheoretica - Tập 34 - Trang 157-164 - 1985
Dieter Stefan Peters1
1Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Senckenberg Anlage, Germany

Tóm tắt

A reconstruction of the anagenetic transformations from fins to tetrapod limbs is represented considering the self-evident mechanical constraints which must have limited the construction and thus the function and the transformation.

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