Animal Locomotion

This book is an introduction to animal locomotion and its evolutionary background and context with focus on comparative biophysics, biomechanics and bioengineering of animals. Swimming, flying and terrestrial locomotion are reviewed within current frameworks of the scientific method and modern evolutionary biology. The intended primary audience is advanced-level students and researchers primarily interested in and trained in mathematics, physical sciences and engineering. Students of organismal biology, functional morphology, organ system and ecological physiology, physiological ecology, molecular biology, molecular genetics and systems biology should also find this book useful.