Bone Up on Basic Mechanics and Engineering
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Currey has produced a wonderfully useful review of the mechanical principles which have influenced the shape, structure and composition of bone tissue and bones. It includes basic descriptions of strees, strain, shear, Young's Modulus, etc, and then brilliantly explains how those concepts are applied to evaluating the mechanical properties of bone. I found this book helpful as I was thinking about how natural selection operates on bones and the animals which they support and protect. Any biologist or paleontologist interested in form and function in vertebrates will want this book.
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