Biased Embryos And Evolution
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Biased Embryos and Evolution
Author | : Wallace Arthur |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-05-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0521541611 |
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What determines the direction of evolutionary change? This book provides a revolutionary answer to this question. Many biologists, from Darwin's day to our own, have been satisfied with the answer 'natural selection'. Professor Wallace Arthur is not. He takes the controversial view that biases in the ways that embryos can be altered are just as important as natural selection in determining the directions that evolution has taken, including the one that led to the origin of humans. This argument forms the core of the book. However, in addition, the book summarizes other important issues relating to how embryonic (and post-embryonic) development evolves. Written in an easy, conversational style, this is the first book for students and the general reader that provides an account of the exciting new field of Evolutionary Developmental Biology ('Evo-Devo' to its proponents).
Embryology Epigenesis and Evolution
Author | : Jason Scott Robert |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2004-03-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781139449953 |
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Historically, philosophers of biology have tended to sidestep the problem of development by focusing primarily on evolutionary biology and, more recently, on molecular biology and genetics. Quite often too, development has been misunderstood as simply, or even primarily, a matter of gene activation and regulation. Nowadays a growing number of philosophers of science are focusing their analyses on the complexities of development, and in Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution Jason Scott Robert explores the nature of development against current trends in biological theory and practice and looks at the interrelations between development and evolution (evo-devo), an area of resurgent biological interest. Clearly written, this book should be of interest to students and professionals in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of biology.
Embryos Genes and Evolution
Author | : Rudolf A. Raff,Thomas C. Kaufman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Developmental genetics |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105115181385 |
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Embryos Genes and Evolution
Author | : Rudolf A. Raff,Thomas C. Kaufman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0608093580 |
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Cells Embryos and Evolution
Author | : Jon Gerhart,Marc Kirschner |
Publsiher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1997-06-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822025799586 |
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Gerhart and Kirschner aim to explain the origins of phenotypic variation and evolutionary adaptation from within eukaryotic cell biological and developmental processes. Their examples are drawn from paleontology, developmental and cell biology.
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought
Author | : Ron Amundson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2005-03-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1139443429 |
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In this book Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors had made history come out right for the Evolutionary Synthesis. The book starts with a revised history of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. It then investigates how development became irrelevant with the Evolutionary Synthesis. It concludes with an examination of the contrasts that persist between mainstream evolutionary theory and evo-devo. This book will appeal to students and professionals in the philosophy and history of science, and biology.
The Origin of Animal Body Plans
Author | : Wallace Arthur |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521779286 |
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This book examines both the origin of body plans in particular and the evolution of animal development in general.
Evolving Animals
Author | : Wallace Arthur |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-08-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1107627958 |
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What do we know about animal evolution in the early twenty-first century? How much more do we know today than Darwin did? What are the most exciting discoveries that have been made in the last few decades? Covering all the main animal groups, from jellyfish to mammals, this book considers all of these questions and more. Its 30 short chapters, each written in a conversational, nontechnical style and accompanied by numerous original illustrations, deal equally with the pattern and the process of evolution - with both evolutionary trees and evolutionary mechanisms. They cover diverse evolutionary themes, including: the animal toolkit, natural selection, embryos and larvae, animal consciousness, fossils, human evolution, and even the possibility of animal life existing elsewhere than on Earth. This unique text will make an excellent introduction for undergraduates and others with an interest in the subject.