Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.