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Sean Carroll explores how evolution has shaped nature's wondrous complexity and diversity, from insects to octopuses, from mice to men.
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'Carroll... writes in a lively style, peppering the book with endlessly fascinating examples' Scientific American.
'Impressively skilful first book' Independent.
'Provides an essential glimpse into both the creation of life and the excitement of scientific discovery' Sunday Telegraph.
'Makes Evo Devo accessible to a wider readership ... Carroll does it splendidly' Guardian.
'Sean B. Carroll is the ideal author to lead the curious on this intellectual adventure - he is the acknowledged leader of the field' Lewis Wolpert.
'A first-rate introduction to Evo Devo' Nature. --Reviews.
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Striped horses, gigantic grey mammals with six-foot-long noses, and spotted cats that can outrun a Jeep? If these creatures did not exist, they would be almost too incredible to believe.
Our planet is filled with an astonishing multiplicity of strange and beautiful animal forms. For all the advances in our knowledge made by Darwin and pioneers in many different fields since, how these forms are created has remained something of a mystery. Thanks to evolutionary development biology - dubbed Evo Devo - we now understand this process. The answer, it turns out, lies in an ancient genetic toolkit common to all species.
Sean B. Carroll takes us on a fascinating journey through this groundbreaking field, showing how all forms - from the humble fruit fly to Homo sapiens - are a result of old genes learning new tricks.
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- PublisherQuercus
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1849160481
- ISBN 13 9781849160483
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages384
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. We not only share nearly 99% of our genes with chimps, we also have some 35% in common with daffodils. Throughout much of the animal and even plant kingdoms, almost the same ancient genes code for almost the same proteins. And further, to everyone's astonishment, the genes involved in making the complex eyes of fruitflies are close matches to those involved in making the very different eyes of octopuses and people. So what leads to the nature's 'endless forms most beautiful'? The key to this mystery is being unravelled by 'Evo Devo' or the new science of evolutionary development biology. By looking at how a single-celled egg gives rise to a complex, multi-billion celled animal, Evo Devo is illuminating exactly how new species - butterflies and zebras, trilobites and dinosaurs, apes and humans - are made and evolved. The key, it turns out, is all about location and timing. For anyone who has ever pondered 'where did I come from', Endless Forms Most Beautiful explores our history, both the journey we have all made from egg to adult, and the long trek from the origin of life to the very recent origin of our species. Sean Carroll explores how evolution has shaped nature's wondrous complexity and diversity, from insects to octopuses, from mice to men. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781849160483
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