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The changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought : roots of evo-devo /
"In this book Ron Amundson examines 200 years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This new perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that man...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Darwin's century: beyond the essentialism story. Systematics and the birth of the natural system
- The origins of morphology, the science of form
- Owen and Darwin, the archetype and the ancestor
- Evolutionary morphology: the first generation of evolutionists
- Interlude
- Part II. Neo-Darwin's century: explaining the absence and the reappearance of development in evolutionary thought. The invention of heredity
- Basics of the evolutionary synthesis
- Structuralist reactions to the synthesis
- The synthesis matures
- Recent debates and the continuing tension.