The linkage between form and function is a fascinating field for intellectual analysis and contemplation in natural sciences by naturalists, biologists, anatomists, as well as philosophers and theologians. In the early nineteenth century, creationists’ approaches (Cuvier-Paley) helped to install the idea of a form-function binomial that gained scientific status in the second half of that century when it was contextualized within the framework of evolution by natural selection. In the mid-twentieth century, W.J. Bock and G. von Wahlert settled the modern basis for the elucidation of adaptation based on morphology, function, environment, and their interconnections. The paleontologist Leonard Burton Radinsky made significant contributions to the development of form-function studies. Also, his posthumously published book The Evolution of Vertebrate Design (1987), inspired many young biologists to embrace form-function approaches. Radinsky emphasized the importance of looking for the behaviors or functions that are actually correlated with a particular anatomical form in living species, together with a biomechanical design analysis as looking at that anatomical structure from a biomechanical or engineering perspective. Field biology research and testing form-function correlation should be a prerequisite in adaptation research programs.

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对形态功能相关性和生物设计的看法

形式和功能之间的联系是博物学家、生物学家、解剖学家以及哲学家和神学家在自然科学中进行智力分析和思考的迷人领域。在 19 世纪早期，神创论者的方法（居维叶-佩利）帮助确立了形式函数二项式的概念，该概念在 20 世纪下半叶被自然选择的进化框架内化时获得了科学地位。20 世纪中叶，WJ Bock 和 G. von Wahlert 奠定了现代基础，以阐明基于形态、功能、环境及其相互联系的适应。古生物学家伦纳德·伯顿·拉丁斯基 (Leonard Burton Radinsky) 对形式功能研究的发展做出了重大贡献。还，他死后出版的《脊椎动物设计的进化》（The Evolution of Vertebrate Design，1987）一书启发了许多年轻的生物学家接受形式-功能方法。Radinsky 强调了寻找与生物物种中特定解剖形式实际相关的行为或功能的重要性，以及从生物力学或工程角度观察解剖结构的生物力学设计分析。野外生物学研究和测试形式功能相关性应该是适应研究计划的先决条件。结合生物力学设计分析，从生物力学或工程角度观察解剖结构。野外生物学研究和测试形式功能相关性应该是适应研究计划的先决条件。结合生物力学设计分析，从生物力学或工程角度观察解剖结构。野外生物学研究和测试形式功能相关性应该是适应研究计划的先决条件。