Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental BiologyBrian K. Hall, Wendy M. Olson Harvard University Press, 2006 - 476 Seiten The new field of evolutionary developmental biology is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary biology. The fundamental principle of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") is that evolution acts through inherited changes in the development of the organism. "Evo-devo" is not merely a fusion of the fields of developmental and evolutionary biology, the grafting of a developmental perspective onto evolutionary biology, or the incorporation of an evolutionary perspective into developmental biology. Evo-devo strives for a unification of genomic, developmental, organismal, population, and natural selection approaches to evolutionary change. It draws from development, evolution, paleontology, ecology, and molecular and systematic biology, but has its own set of questions, approaches, and methods. |
Inhalt
Atavism | 10 |
Canalization and Genetic Assimilation | 23 |
Conserved Early Embryonic Stages | 43 |
Development Evolution and Evolutionary | 61 |
Animal | 74 |
Developmental Systems Theory | 94 |
Environment | 108 |
Evolution of Plant Body Plans and Allometry | 124 |
Genomic | 209 |
Larvae and Larval Evolution | 228 |
Cell and Phyletic | 243 |
Modularity | 260 |
Ontogenetic Integration of Form and Function | 275 |
Phenotypic Plasticity | 288 |
Phylotype and Zootype | 309 |
Segmentation | 326 |
Fossils and Paleobiology | 137 |
Genome Size | 152 |
Hierarchy | 169 |
Homeotic Genes in Flowering Plants | 184 |
Homology and Homoplasy | 191 |
Units and Levels in Developing Systems | 332 |
Speciation | 349 |
Variation | 368 |
Contributors | 457 |
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