Wallace Arthur is Emeritus Professor of Zoology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), and has a special interest in explaining scientific concepts in plain, nontechnical language. He is the author of nine previous books, including Biased Embryos and Evolution (Cambridge, 2004) and The Origin of Animal Body Plans (Cambridge, 1997).
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Preface Acknowledgements 1. What is an animal? 2. Before there were animals 3. How to make a fossil 4. The Cambrian explosion 5. How to make a species 6. Jellyfish and their kin 7. How to make a tree 8. The enigmatic urbilaterian 9. Animal symmetry and heads 10. A plethora of worms 11. Trends in animal complexity 12. Where the octopus is king 13. How to make an animal 14. Exoskeletons galore 15. Extinction 16. Mouth first, mouth second 17. Comparing embryos 18. Larvae, mouthparts and moulting 19. The animal toolkit 20. Vertebrate origins and evolution 21. From water to land to water 22. Variation and inheritance 23. Evolutionary novelties 24. Human origins and evolution 25. Animal plasticity 26. The nature of adaptation 27. The direction of evolution 28. Animal extremophiles 29. Extraterrestrial animals? 30. The ghost in the machine Appendix References Index.
Preface Acknowledgements 1. What is an animal? 2. Before there were animals 3. How to make a fossil 4. The Cambrian explosion 5. How to make a species 6. Jellyfish and their kin 7. How to make a tree 8. The enigmatic urbilaterian 9. Animal symmetry and heads 10. A plethora of worms 11. Trends in animal complexity 12. Where the octopus is king 13. How to make an animal 14. Exoskeletons galore 15. Extinction 16. Mouth first, mouth second 17. Comparing embryos 18. Larvae, mouthparts and moulting 19. The animal toolkit 20. Vertebrate origins and evolution 21. From water to land to water 22. Variation and inheritance 23. Evolutionary novelties 24. Human origins and evolution 25. Animal plasticity 26. The nature of adaptation 27. The direction of evolution 28. Animal extremophiles 29. Extraterrestrial animals? 30. The ghost in the machine Appendix References Index.
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