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Animal Evolution - Genomes, Fossils, and Trees (Paperback)
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Animal Evolution - Genomes, Fossils, and Trees (Paperback)
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Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is
incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of
this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such as humans and
fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges,
insects, molluscs, and the many groups of worms - is a major goal
of evolutionary biology. In this book, a group of leading
researchers adopt a modern, integrated approach to describe how
current molecular genetic techniques and disciplines as diverse as
palaeontology, embryology, and genomics have been combined,
resulting in a dramatic renaissance in the study of animal
evolution.
The last decade has seen growing interest in evolutionary biology
fuelled by a wealth of data from molecular biology. Modern
phylogenies integrating evidence from molecules, embryological
data, and morphology of living and fossil taxa provide a wide
consensus of the major branching patterns of the tree of life;
moreover, the links between phenotype and genotype are increasingly
well understood. This has resulted in a reliable tree of
relationships that has been widely accepted and has spawned
numerous new and exciting questions that require a reassessment of
the origins and radiation of animal life. The focus of this volume
is at the level of major animal groups, the morphological
innovations that define them, and the mechanisms of change to their
embryology that have resulted in their evolution. Current research
themes and future prospects are highlighted including phylogeny
reconstruction, comparative developmental biology, the value of
different sources of data and the importance of fossils, homology
assessment, character evolution, phylogeny of major groups of
animals, and genome evolution. These topics are integrated in the
light of a 'new animal phylogeny', to provide fresh insights into
the patterns and processes of animal evolution.
Animal Evolution provides a timely and comprehensive statement of
progress in the field for academic researchers requiring an
authoritative, balanced and up-to-date overview of the topic. It is
also intended for both upper level undergraduate and graduate
students taking courses in animal evolution, molecular
phylogenetics, evo-devo, comparative genomics and associated
disciplines.
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