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Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Paperback, 2nd ed. 1999)
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Although evolutionary developmental biology is a new field, its
origins lie in the last century; the search for connections between
embryonic development (ontogeny) and evolutionary change
(phylogeny) has been a long one. Evolutionary developmental biology
is however more than just a fusion of the fields of developmental
and evolutionary biology. It forges a unification of genomic,
developmental, organismal, population and natural selection
approaches to evolutionary change. It is concerned with how
developmental processes evolve; how evolution produces novel
structures, functions and behaviours; and how development,
evolution and ecology are integrated to bring about and stabilize
evolutionary change. The previous edition of this title, published
in 1992, defined the terms and laid out the field for evolutionary
developmental biology. This field is now one of the most active and
fast growing within biology and this is reflected in this second
edition, which is more than twice the length of the original and
brought completely up to date. There are new chapters on major
transitions in animal evolution, expanded coverage of comparative
embryonic development and the inclusion of recent advances in
genetics and molecular biology. The book is divided into eight
parts which: place evolutionary developmental biology in the
historical context of the search for relationships between
development and evolution; detail the historical background leading
to evolutionary embryology; explore embryos in development and
embryos in evolution; discuss the relationship between embryos,
evolution, environment and ecology; discuss the dilemma for
homology of the fact that development evolves; deal with
theimportance of understanding how embryos measure time and place
both through development and evolutionarily through heterochrony
and heterotrophy; and set out the principles and processes that
underlie evolutionary developmental biology. With over one hundred
illustrations and photographs, extensive cross-referencing between
chapters and boxes for ancillary material, this latest edition will
be of immense interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate
students in cell, developmental and molecular biology, and in
zoology, evolution, ecology and entomology; in fact anyone with an
interest in this new and increasingly important and
interdisciplinary field which unifies biology.
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