Aimed primarily at a general readership and college students of biology, this book focuses on the question of how embryonic development changes in the course of evolution, thus giving rise to new types of creatures. It takes the view that biases in the ways that embryos can be altered are as important as natural selection in determining the directions that evolution has taken, including the one that led to the origin of humans.
Aimed primarily at a general readership and college students of biology, this book focuses on the question of how embryonic development changes in the course of evolution, thus giving rise to new types of creatures. It takes the view that biases in the ways that embryos can be altered are as important as natural selection in determining the directions that evolution has taken, including the one that led to the origin of humans.
Professor Wallace Arthur is in the Integrative Biology Group at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is the author of six previous books.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1. The microscopic horse 2. What 'drives' evolution? 3. Darwin: pluralism with a single core 4. How to build a body 5. A brief history of the last billion years 6. Preamble to the quiet revolution 7. The return of the organism 8. Possible creatures 9. The beginnings of bias 10. A deceptively simple question 11. Development's twin arrows 12. Action and reaction 13. Evolvability: organisms in bits 14. Back to the trees 15. Stripes and spots 16. Towards 'The Inclusive Synthesis' 17. Social creatures Glossary References.
Preface 1. The microscopic horse 2. What 'drives' evolution? 3. Darwin: pluralism with a single core 4. How to build a body 5. A brief history of the last billion years 6. Preamble to the quiet revolution 7. The return of the organism 8. Possible creatures 9. The beginnings of bias 10. A deceptively simple question 11. Development's twin arrows 12. Action and reaction 13. Evolvability: organisms in bits 14. Back to the trees 15. Stripes and spots 16. Towards 'The Inclusive Synthesis' 17. Social creatures Glossary References.
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