Evolutionary developmental biology /
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| Author / Creator: | Hall, Brian K. (Brian Keith), 1941- |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1998. |
| Description: | xviii, 491 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3497838 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part One. Evolution and Development, Phyla and Fossils
- 1. Evolution and Development: Terms and Concepts
- 2. Types of Animals: Kingdoms, Phyla, Relationships
- 3. Fossils of the Burgess Shale
- Part Two. Form and Function, Embryos and Evolution, Inheritance Systems
- 4. Types and the Geoffroy-Cuvier Debates: a Crossroads in Evolutionary Morphology
- 5. Embryological Archetypes and Homology: Establishing Evolutionary Embryology
- 6. Bauplne, Constraints and Basic Phases of Development
- 7. Inheritance Systems: Zygotic, Maternal, Epigenetic
- Part Three. Embryos in Development
- 8. Model Organisms, Conserved Stages and Processes
- 9. Where Generations Converge: Germ Lines and Body Plans
- 10. Building Vertebrate Embryos: Heads and Tails
- 11. Building Organ Systems
- 12. Integrating Organ Systems, Developmental Canalization and Asymmetry
- Part Four. Embryos in Evolution
- 13. Innovation, Novelty and the Origin of Multicellularity
- 14. Complexity and the Origin of the Metazoa
- 15. Chordate and Vertebrate Origins and Diversification
- 16. Transitions in Animal Evolution
- 17. Integrated Change in Vertebrate Evolution
- Part Five. Embryos, Environment and Evolution
- 18. Evolution as the Control of Development by Ecology
- 19. Evolution, Genetic Variability and the Environment
- 20. A Quantitative Genetics Model for Morphological Change in Development and Evolution
- Part Six. Development Evolves
- 21. Development Evolves: The Dilemma for Homology
- 22. Ontogeny Evolves: the Dilemma for Larvae
- Part Seven. Patterns and Processes, Time and Place
- 24. Time and Place in Evolution: Heterochrony and Heterotopy
- Part Eight. Principles and Processes
- 25. Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Principles and Processes
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index
