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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Embryos in Evolution
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Embryos, Environment and Evolution
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Front Matter
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Development Evolves
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Front Matter
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Patterns and Processes, Time and Place
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Front Matter
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Principles and Processes
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The previous edition of this title, published in 1992, defined the terms and laid out the field for evolutionary developmental biology. This field is now one of the most active and fast growing within biology and this is reflected in this second edition, which is more than twice the length of the original and brought completely up to date. There are new chapters on major transitions in animal evolution, expanded coverage of comparative embryonic development and the inclusion of recent advances in genetics and molecular biology.
The book is divided into eight parts which:
- place evolutionary developmental biology in the historical context of the search for relationships between development and evolution;
- detail the historical background leading to evolutionary embryology;
- explore embryos in development and embryos in evolution;
- discuss the relationship between embryos, evolution, environment and ecology;
- discuss the dilemma for homology of the fact that development evolves;
- deal with the importance of understanding how embryos measure time and place both through development and evolutionarily through heterochrony and heterotrophy; and set out the principles andprocesses that underlie evolutionary developmental biology.
With over one hundred illustrations and photographs, extensive cross-referencing between chapters and boxes for ancillary material, this latest edition will be of immense interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in cell, developmental and molecular biology, and in zoology, evolution, ecology and entomology; in fact anyone with an interest in this new and increasingly important and interdisciplinary field which unifies biology.
Authors and Affiliations
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Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Brian K. Hall
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Authors: Brian K. Hall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3961-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-78580-1Published: 30 September 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-78590-0Published: 31 August 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3961-8Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 491
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology, Animal Physiology