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Homology -- a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry, such as a seal's fin and a bird's wing -- is one of the most fundamental yet challenging concepts in evolutionary biology. This groundbreaking book provides the first mechanistically based theory of w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wagner, Günter P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Developmental genetics.
Evolution (Biology)
Genetic regulation.
Biological Evolution
Gene Expression Regulation
Génétique du développement.
Régulation génétique.
Évolution (Biologie)
evolution.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Anatomy & Physiology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Developmental genetics
Genetic regulation
Entwicklungsgenetik
Genregulation
Evolution
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. What this book aims to do and what it is not
  • The intellectual challenge of morphological evolution : a case for variational structuralism
  • A conceptual roadmap to homology
  • A genetic theory of homology
  • Evolutionary novelties : the origin of homologs
  • Developmental mechanisms for evolutionary novelties
  • The genetics of evolutionary novelties
  • The long shadow of metaphysics on research programs
  • Cell types and their origins
  • Skin and a few of its derivatives
  • Fins and limbs
  • Digits and digit identity
  • Flowers
  • Lessons and challenges.

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