Morphogenesis and Evolution

✍ Scribed by Keith Stewart Thomson

• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 163
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Today developmental and evolutionary biologists are focussing renewed attention on the developmental process--those genetic and cellular factors that influence variation in individual body shape or metabolism--in an attempt to better understand how evolutionary trends and patterns within individuals might be limited and controlled. In this important work, the author reviews the classical literature on embryology, morphogenesis, and paleontology, and presents recent genetic and molecular studies on development. The result is a unique perspective on a set of problems of fundamental importance to developmental and evolutionary biologists.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 12
2. Theory, Reduction, and Hierarchy......Page 17
3. Development: Pattern and Process......Page 27
4. Early Pattern Formation......Page 34
5. Example: Early Pattern Formation in Amphibia......Page 47
6. Later Pattern Formation: Morphogenesis......Page 56
7. Some General Properties of Morphogenetic Systems......Page 78
8. Patterns of Evolution......Page 106
9. Morphogenesis and Evolution......Page 129
References......Page 148
D......Page 160
L......Page 161
S......Page 162
Z......Page 163