About this title: Presents an introduction to evolutionary developmental biology which studies genes and their role in biological diversity and evolution.
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 4/11/2005
ISBN-13:9780393060164ISBN:0393060160
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2005-04-11
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2005
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Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
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Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2006
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2006-04-01
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
Date Published: 2006
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Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2005-04-01
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Binding: Hardcover
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Date Published: 2005
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"I was somewhat led astray by the wonderful title of this book, as well as its striking cover. While clear in presentation, the writing is somewhat technical lacks something of the poetry that I would have liked for anyone presenting the breathtaking grandeur of evolutionary theory. That said, the continuing discoveries of evolutionary biology are pretty striking. What is especially stimulating, given the relevance of this pattern to all sorts of other systems, is modularity: the idea that genes represent not so much explicit design as design algorithms that can unfold differently depending on the context."
""Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an egg and evolution from its ancestors," writes Sean B. Carroll in his introduction to Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The new science of "evo devo"--or evolutionary developmental biology--examines the relationships between those two processes, embryonic development and evolutionary changes, despite their radically different time scales. Carroll first offers a recap of how genes express themselves in a growing embryo, then peers into the life histories of real-life examples to explain how those genes have changed (or not changed) over millions of years of evolution. Paraphrasing Thomas Huxley, he asks us to consider evolution and development as two sides of the same coin. We may marvel at the process of an egg becoming an adult, but we accept it as an everyday fact. It is merely then a lack of imagination to fail to grasp how changes in this process that assimilated over long periods of time, far longer than the span of human experience, shape life's diversity." The book's second half is where Carroll really gets at the meat of evo devo, explaining how regulatory genes control such mysteries as individual and population changes in butterfly's spots, jaguar fur, and hominid skulls. Evo devo is one of the hottest areas of study in 21st-century biology, and Carroll's outline of the field is a great place to start understanding it."
"An excellent and clear introduction to the science of evo-devo.
Caroll lays out beautifully what he and colleagues are learning through combining embryology with evolution, and shows how the union solves a number of mysteries that have been puzzling scientists for decades.
Although this is very definitely a layman's introduction, it does get quite deep into the science, to the point that I found myself a bit confused by all the different concepts - switches, toolkits, etc.
I also couldn't help feeling that he allows his enthusiasm - and his bias as one of the leaders in the field - to get the better of him, leaving the impression that not only is evo-devo the best thing since sliced bread, but that no-one had ever made any progress in studying evolution until it came along.
Pity, because the science clearly has had a major impact, but there's still plenty of interesting things going on outside of the field and Carroll doesn't do himself any favours by implying otherwise."
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