Evolution and Development: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Evolution and Development Berlin 1981, May 10–15

✍ Scribed by J. T. Bonner (auth.), J. T. Bonner (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Series: Dahlem Workshop Reports 22
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

3 There are other trends in the attempt to meld evolution and development which immodesty permits me to add. I have been concerned over the years with the selection forces which might have produced larger organisms and therefore a development of increasing complexity. This is nowhere more evident than in the multiple evolutionary origins of multicellularity and all the variety of developmental mechanics that have gone with it. (I discuss this and related themes in various places, but see especially The Evolution of Development (1958; (1)) and Size and Cycle (1965; (2)). To some degree these examples of the bringing together of evolu­ tion and development are exceptions. By far the most important historical trends in this century have been the success of in­ dividual disciplines. Embryology had its great flowering be­ ginning in the last century, coming to a climax with the work of Spemann on induction in the first two decades of this cen­ tury. Genetics has had an extraordinary continuing series of revolutions beginning with the rediscovery of Mendel and pro­ gressing through Morgan to the flash flood of molecular genetics and the structure of DNA. This flood was a flash only in the sense that it rushed upon us with amazing speed; its effects in the form of important and exciting work produced has not subsided and we are still in a peak period of molecular genetics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Genomic Change and Morphological Evolution Group Report....Pages 18-39
Genomic Alterations in Evolution....Pages 41-64
Evolutionary Change in Genomic Regulatory Organization: Speculations on the Origins of Novel Biological Structure....Pages 65-84
The Cellular Basis of Morphogenetic Change Group Report....Pages 86-114
A Catalogue of Processes Responsible for Metazoan Morphogenesis....Pages 115-154
What Does the Comparative Study of Development Tell Us About Evolution?....Pages 155-167
Pattern Formation and Change....Pages 169-188
Genes That Control High Level Developmental Switches....Pages 189-205
Ontogenetic Mechanisms: The Middle Ground of Evolution....Pages 207-212
Adaptive Aspects of Development Group Report....Pages 214-235
The Role of Development in the Evolution of Life Histories....Pages 237-258
Selection for Size, Shape, and Development Timing....Pages 259-276
The Role of Development in Macroevolutionary Change Group Report....Pages 278-312
Developmental Constraints in Evolutionary Processes....Pages 313-332
Change in Developmental Timing As a Mechanism of Macroevolution....Pages 333-346
Back Matter....Pages 347-358

✦ Subjects

Zoology; Plant Sciences