Biased Embryos and Evolution

Name: Biased Embryos and Evolution
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ISBN: 9780521833820

ISBN-10: 0521833825

ISBN-13: 9780521833820

Edition: 2003

Authors: Wallace Arthur

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Aimed primarily at a general readership and college students of biology, this book focuses on the question of how embryonic development changes in the course of evolution, thus giving rise to new types of creatures. It takes the view that biases in the ways that embryos can be altered are as important as natural selection in determining the directions that evolution has taken, including the one that led to the origin of humans.

Book details

List price: $114.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/27/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.29" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements



The microscopic horse



What steers evolution?



Darwin: pluralism with a single core



How to build a body



A brief history of the last billion years



Preamble to the quiet revolution



The return of the organism



Possible creatures



The beginnings of bias



A deceptively simple question



Development's twin arrows



Action and reaction



Evolvability: organisms in bits



Back to the trees



Stripes and spots



Towards 'the inclusive synthesis'



Social creatures


Glossary


References


Index