Forms of becoming : the evolutionary biology of development /
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| Author / Creator: | Minelli, Alessandro. |
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| Uniform title: | Forme del divenire. English |
| Imprint: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009. |
| Description: | xiii, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7704984 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part 1. Forms and Numbers
- Chapter 1. Unity in Diversity
- Two Skeletons
- Clashes at the Museacute;um
- Squid and Vertebrate
- Topsy-turvy
- Chapter 2. Archetypes
- The Primeval Plant
- A Skeleton for Everyone
- An Exemplary Crayfi sh
- Chapter 3. Easy Numbers, Forbidden Numbers
- The Scolopendra's Legs
- The Nonexistent Variant
- The Leech's Segments
- Unexpected Arithmetic
- The Giraffe's Neck
- Indirect Effects
- On the Fingers of One Hand
- Number and Position
- Chapter 4. Privileged Genes
- Unity of Body Plan
- The Universal Appendage
- The Zootype
- Position and Structure
- "Master Control Genes"
- Networks
- Part 2. Constructing Form
- Chapter 5. Evolution and Development
- Genes and Determinism
- Possible Butterfl ies, Real Butterflies
- Evo-devo
- Chapter 6. The Logic of Development
- From Mechanics to Molecules
- The Lawfulness of "Monsters"
- A Worm Enters the Scene
- A Mosaic, or Perhaps Not
- One Model, Several Models
- The Adult's Questionable Uniqueness
- Boxed Generations
- According to Program
- Cuticle, Cuticles
- Cilia and Mitosis
- Taking Development Seriously
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny
- Chapter 7. Paradigm Shifts
- Science and Language
- Gene, Genes
- Busillis
- Tissues
- More on Segments
- Origin, Form, and Function
- Parallel Worksites
- What Do We Start From?
- Which Adult?
- Siamese Twins and Corals
- Spare Parts
- Chapter 8. Comparisons
- Horns and Antlers
- Homology
- One Gene, Several Effects
- Ars Combinatoria
- The Limits of Hierarchies
- Organs, Only When All Is Done
- Structures, Processes, and Developmental Stages
- Chapter 9. The Body's Syntax
- From Tip to Toe
- The Dual Animal
- The Sea Urchin
- The Tapeworm
- Part 3. Origins
- Chapter 10. Competition or Cooperation?
- Apologues and Metaphors
- The Species: From Inside and from Outside
- Butterfl ies and Sea Urchins
- Parasitoids
- Throw-Away Larvae
- Competition between Equals, or Not Quite
- Germ and Soma
- Authorized Competition among Equals
- A Virtual Mouth
- Embryonic Leafl ets
- Who Is Winning?
- One Egg, Several Embryos
- Two Twins, or Rather One
- Identical Twins, or Maybe Not
- The Pupa's Balance Sheet
- Competition and Cooperation: Two Sides of the Same Coin
- Everything Small
- Development in Stages
- Chapter 11. Making and Remaking
- Many and All Equal, or Few and Different
- A Product of Factors
- Calculations without Error
- Broken Chains
- Co-option
- Buds and Appendages
- Chapter 12. Innovations without Plans
- Regularity without a Program
- Inexpensive Symmetry
- Breaks in Symmetry
- The Origin of Evolutionary Novelties
- Modules
- A Glance at the Clock
- Epilogue
- Recommended Readings
- Index
