Biased Embryos And Evolution

Author : Wallace Arthur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521541619
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biased Embryos and Evolution written by Wallace Arthur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Author : Jon Gerhart
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cells, Embryos and Evolution written by Jon Gerhart and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-06-04 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ron Amundson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139443425
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought written by Ron Amundson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jason Scott Robert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139449958
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution written by Jason Scott Robert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rudolf A. Raff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embryos, Genes, and Evolution written by Rudolf A. Raff and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian K. Hall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401579261
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Developmental Biology written by Brian K. Hall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many changes that occur during the embryonic development of an individual animal can be seen as a parallel to changes that have occurred in species or groups of species during evolutionary time. This book covers the interaction between developmental and evolutionary changes in animals.

Author : Rudolf A. Raff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608093581
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embryos, Genes and Evolution written by Rudolf A. Raff and published by . This book was released on with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wallace Arthur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107049636
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolving Animals written by Wallace Arthur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering all the main animal groups, from jellyfish to mammals, this book unravels the story of animal evolution.

Author : Alessandro Minelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139437801
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Animal Form written by Alessandro Minelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-03 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary research in the field of evolutionary developmental biology, or 'evo-devo', has to date been predominantly devoted to interpreting basic features of animal architecture in molecular genetics terms. Considerably less time has been spent on the exploitation of the wealth of facts and concepts available from traditional disciplines, such as comparative morphology, even though these traditional approaches can continue to offer a fresh insight into evolutionary developmental questions. The Development of Animal Form aims to integrate traditional morphological and contemporary molecular genetic approaches and to deal with post-embryonic development as well. This approach leads to unconventional views on the basic features of animal organization, such as body axes, symmetry, segments, body regions, appendages and related concepts. This book will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers in evolutionary and developmental biology, as well as to those in related areas of cell biology, genetics and zoology.

Author : Jonathan Wells
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 159698533X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icons of Evolution written by Jonathan Wells and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you were taught about evolution is wrong.