Evolving Pathways: Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology - Hardcover

Fusco, Giuseppe

 
9780521875004: Evolving Pathways: Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521875005 ISBN 13: 9780521875004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Evolutionary developmental biology, or 'evo-devo', is the study of the relationship between evolution and development. Dealing specifically with the generative mechanisms of organismal form, evo-devo goes straight to the core of the developmental origin of variation, the raw material on which natural selection (and random drift) can work. Evolving Pathways brings together contributions that represent a diversity of approaches. Topics range from developmental genetics to comparative morphology of animals and plants alike, and also include botany and palaeontology, two disciplines for which the potential to be examined from an evo-devo perspective has largely been ignored until now. Researchers and graduate students will find this book a valuable overview of current research as we begin to fill a major gap in our perception of evolutionary change.

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About the Author

Alessandro Minelli is currently Professor of Zoology at the University of Padova, Italy. An honorary fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, he was a founding member and vice-president of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. He has served as president of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, and is on the editorial board of multiple learned journals, including Evolution & Development. He is the author of 'The Development of Animal Form' (2003). Giuseppe Fusco is Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of Padova, Italy. His main research work is in the morphological evolution and post-embryonic development of arthropods, with particular reference to the role of segmentation in the Chilopoda. The results of his work have been presented at many international congresses, including the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521875005
ISBN 13 
9780521875004
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
446
Editor
Minelli Alessandro

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