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Evolution : a developmental approach /
"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 develo...
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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2011.
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| Online Access: | http://catalogimages.wiley.com/images/db/jimages/9781405186582.jpg |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- What is evo-devo?
- Development, cells and molecules
- Natural populations
- Mutation and developmental repatterning
- Heterochrony
- Heterotropy
- Heterometry
- Heterotypy
- The integrative nature of repatterning
- Mapping repatterning to trees
- Adaptation, coadaptation and exaptation
- Developmental bias and constraint
- Developmental genes and evolution
- Gene co-option as an evolutionary mechanism
- Developmental plasticity and evolution
- The origin of species, novelties and body plans
- The evolution of complexity
- Key concepts and connections
- Prospects
- Glossary
- Appendix 1: A little bit of history
- Appendix 2: Naming of genes and proteins
- Appendix 3: Geological time
- Appendix 4: Inferring evolutionary trees from comparative data.
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