Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA.
Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Integr Comp Biol. 2020 Nov 1;60(5):1188-1192. doi: 10.1093/icb/icaa132.
The nascent field of evolutionary biomechanics seeks to understand how form begets function, and researchers have taken two tacks toward this goal: inferring form based on function (comparative biomechanics) or inferring function based on form (functional morphology). Each tack has strengths and weaknesses, which the other could improve. The symposium, "Melding modeling and morphology-integrating approaches to understand the evolution of form and function" sought to highlight research stitching together the two tacks. In this introduction to the symposium's issue, we highlight these works, discuss the challenges of interdisciplinary collaborations, and suggest possible avenues available to create new collaborations to create a unifying framework for evolutionary biomechanics.
新兴的进化生物力学领域旨在研究形态如何产生功能，研究人员为此设定了两个目标：基于功能推断形态（比较生物力学）或基于形态推断功能（功能形态学）。这两种方法各有优势和劣势，相互结合可以弥补不足。本次研讨会的主题为“融合模型和形态学方法，以理解形态和功能的进化”，旨在强调将这两种方法结合起来的研究。在本期研讨会的介绍中，我们重点介绍了这些作品，讨论了跨学科合作的挑战，并提出了可能的途径，以创建新的合作关系，为进化生物力学建立一个统一的框架。
