Feeding in Vertebrates

Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction: The trophic system: a complex tool in a complex world.- Part I. Overview: from structure to behavior.- Chapter 2. Feeding, function, and phylogeny: status-of-the-art on biomechanics and form-function relationships in vertebrates.- Chapter 3. What does the mechanics of the skeleton tell us about evolution of form and function in vertebrates?.- Chapter 4. Food capture in Vertebrates: a complex integrative performance of the cranial and postcranial systems.- Chapter 5. Transitions from water to land: terrestrial feeding in fishes.- Chapter 6. The evolution of the hand as a tool in feeding behavior: the multiple motor channel theory of reaching.- Part II. Anatomy, Biomechanics and Behavior in chordate and vertebrate lineages.- Chapter 7. Feeding in jawless fishes.- Chapter 8. Feeding in cartilaginous fishes: An interdisciplinary synthesis.- Chapter 9. Functional Morphology and Biomechanics of Feeding in Fishes.- Chapter 10. Evolutionary specialization of the tongue in vertebrates: structure and function.- Chapter 11. Tetrapod Teeth: Diversity, Evolution, and Function.- Chapter 12. Feeding in amphibians: evolutionary transformations and phenotypic diversity as drivers of feeding system diversity.- Chapter 13. Feeding in lizards: form –function and complex multifunctional system.- Chapter 14. Feeding in snakes: form, function, and evolution of the feeding system.- Chapter 15. Feeding in crocodylians and their relatives: functional insights from ontogeny and evolution.- Chapter 16. Feeding in turtles: understanding terrestrial and aquatic feeding in a diverse but monophyletic group.- Chapter 17. Feeding in Birds: Thriving in Terrestrial, Aquatic, and Aerial Niches.- Chapter 18. F Feeding in mammals: comparative, experimental and evolutionary insights on form and function.- Chapter 19. Feeding in Aquatic Mammals: An Evolutionary and Functional Approach.- Chapter 20. Evolution, constraint and optimality in primate feeding systems.- Chapter 21. The Masticatory Apparatus of Humans (Homo sapiens): Evolution and Comparative Functional Morphology.