Screen LibraryThe changing role of the embryo in evolutionary biology：roots of evo-devo
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Canbridge New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 280 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0521806992 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | Q11 |
| CLC: | Q11-02 |
| Call Number: | Q11-02/A529 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index. Introduction -- Part I. Darwin's century: beyond the essentialism story. Systematics and the birth of the natural system -- The origins of morphology, the science of form -- Owen and Darwin, the archetype and the ancestor -- Evolutionary morphology: the first generation of evolutionists -- Interlude -- Part II. Neo-Darwin's century: explaining the absence and the reappearance of development in evolutionary thought. The invention of heredity -- Basics of the evolutionary synthesis -- Structuralist reactions to the synthesis -- The synthesis matures -- Recent debates and the continuing tension. |