Essential Invertebrate Zoology - Softcover

Laverack, M. S.

9780470518878: Essential Invertebrate Zoology

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470518871 ISBN 13: 9780470518878

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1974

Excerpt from the preface: "It is admittedly difficult to do justice to the 30 or so phyla, and numerous classes, that comprise the invertebrates, in the short space available in this book. Nevertheless, there is a case to be made for the compression of the detail given in the standard texts available on the invertebrate groups, though this compression should not be so great as to lead to incomprehension. The impetus of modern biology has been, for the last fifty years or more, towards an experimental and analytical understanding of living creatures and their adaptability to innumerable modes of life. The development of cell biology, endocrinology, ecology, parasitology, comparative physiology, ethology, neurophysiology, and other scientific disciplines, has led to both synthesis and fragmentation of approach.

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