Embryos in deep time : the rock record of biological development /

Embryos in deep time : the rock record of biological development /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sánchez, Marcelo R.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Subject:	Paleobiology. Embryos. Developmental genetics. Developmental genetics. Embryos. Paleobiology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9905533

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ISBN:	0520952308 (electronic bk.) 9780520952300 (electronic bk.) 9780520271937 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520271939 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Other form:	Original 9780520271937 0520271939

Table of Contents:

Fossils, ontogeny, and phylogeny
Evo-devo, plasticity, and modules
Fossilized vertebrate ontogenies
Bones and teeth under the microscope
Proportions, growth, and taxonomy
Growth and diversification patterns
Fossils and developmental genetics
"Missing links" and the evolution of development
Mammalian and human development
On trilobites, shells, and bugs
Epilogue : is there a moral to developmental paleontology?.