From the rear cover
This book is aimed at students taking courses on evolution in universities and colleges. Its approach and its structure are very different from previously-published evolution texts. The core theme in this book is how evolution works by changing the course of embryonic and post-embryonic development. In other words, it is an evolution text that has been very much influenced by the new approach of evolutionary developmental biology, or 'evo-devo'.
Key themes include the following: developmental repatterning; adaptation and coadaptation; gene co-option; developmental plasticity; the origins of evolutionary novelties and body plans; and evolutionary changes in the complexity of organisms. As can be seen from this list, the book includes information across the levels of the gene, the organism, and the population. It also includes the issue of mapping developmental changes onto evolutionary trees. The examples used to illustrate particular points range widely, including animals, plants and fossils.
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- Title Evolution
- Author Wallace Arthur
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
- Date 2011-01-25
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents, Textbook
- ISBN 9781405186582 / 1405186585
- Weight 2.2 lbs (1.00 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.9 in (24.38 x 18.80 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Developmental biology, Evolution (Biology)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010040517
- Dewey Decimal Code 571.8
Media reviews
Citations
- Choice, 09/01/2011, Page 0
- Reference and Research Bk News, 06/01/2011, Page 224
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