Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wagner, Günter P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Evolution
Genregulation
Entwicklungsgenetik
Genetic regulation.
Evolution (Biology)
Developmental genetics.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Anatomy & Physiology.
evolution.
Évolution (Biologie)
Regulation genetique.
Genetique du developpement.
Gene Expression Regulation
Biological Evolution
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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