The shape of life : genes, development, and the evolution of animal form
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Bibliographic Information
The shape of life : genes, development, and the evolution of animal form
University of Chicago Press, 1996
- : cloth
- : pbk
Available at 49 libraries
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Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library図
: pbk467/R12020400365,
:pbk040036
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-491) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the book, "Embryos, Genes, and Evolution", Raff and co-author Thomas Kaufman proposed a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology. In "The Shape of Life", Raff analyzes the rise of this experimental discipline and lays out research questions, hypotheses and approaches to guide its development. Raff uses the evolution of animal body plans to exemplify the interplay between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary patterns. Animal body plans emerged half a billion years ago. Evolution within these body plans during this span of time has resulted in the tremendous diversity of living animal forms. Raff argues for an integrated approach to the study of the intertwined roles of development and evolution involving phylogenetic, comparative and functional biology. This synthesis should interest not only scientists working in these areas, but also paleontologists, zoologists, morphologists, molecular biologists and geneticists.
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments 1: Over the Ice for Ontogeny and Phylogeny 2: Metazoan Phyla and Body Plans 3: Deep Time and Metazoan Origins 4: Molecular Phylogeny: Dissecting the Metazoan Radiation 5: Recovering Data from the Past 6: The Developmental Basis of Body Plans 7: Building Similar Animals in Different Ways 8: It's Not All Heterochrony 9: Developmental Constraints 10: Modularity, Dissociation, and Co-option 11: Opportunistic Genomes 12: Evolving New Body Plans References Index
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