Abstract: In everyday practice, all primary studies of functions in single animal species are generally ranged under comparative physiology; however, this discipline should always deal, often on a secondary and theoretical level, with the comparison of functional aspects in different kinds of animals. At the beginning of the 19th century, the prefix comparative was added to the names of two of the main branches of zoology: anatomy and physiology. The other comparative branches arose secondarily. Comparative physiology has common roots with many other fields of learning and thus, in its origin, it is a special branch of an important cultural trend in science in general. Comparative physiology has the task of making, on a secondary and theoretical level, a comparison of all the functions of the different animal types, of their adaptations to the various environmental conditions, and of their evolution. This chapter discusses the position of comparative physiology in modern biology and its perspectives.
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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