The Shape of Life: Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form - Softcover

Raff, Rudolf A.

 
9780226702667: The Shape of Life: Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226702669 ISBN 13: 9780226702667
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Rudolf Raff is recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary developmental biology. In their 1983 book, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution, Raff and co-author Thomas Kaufman proposed a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology. In The Shape of Life, Raff analyzes the rise of this new experimental discipline and lays out new research questions, hypotheses, and approaches to guide its development.

Raff uses the evolution of animal body plans to exemplify the interplay between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary patterns. Animal body plans emerged half a billion years ago. Evolution within these body plans during this span of time has resulted in the tremendous diversity of living animal forms.

Raff argues for an integrated approach to the study of the intertwined roles of development and evolution involving phylogenetic, comparative, and functional biology. This new synthesis will interest not only scientists working in these areas, but also paleontologists, zoologists, morphologists, molecular biologists, and geneticists.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226702669
ISBN 13 
9780226702667
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
544
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