Lewis I Held Jr

Gebundenes Buch

Animal Anomalies

What Abnormal Anatomies Reveal about Normal Development

Beschreibung

Highlights what we know about the pathways pursued by embryos and evolution, and stresses what we do not yet know.

Autor

Lewis I. Held, Jr. is Associate Professor of Developmental Genetics in the Department of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He is a fly geneticist who has taught human embryology for 35 years. He studied molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, 1973), investigated bristle patterning under John Gerhart at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1977), and conducted postdoctoral research with Peter Bryant and Howard Schneiderman at the University of California, Irvine (1977-86). This is his sixth scholarly monograph, following Models for Embryonic Periodicity (Karger, 1992), Imaginal Discs (Cambridge, 2002), Quirks of Human Anatomy (Cambridge, 2009), How the Snake Lost its Legs (Cambridge, 2014), and Deep Homology? (Cambridge, 2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 196mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781108834704
• ISBN-10: 1108834701
• Artikelnr.: 60553366