The shape of life : genes, development, and the evolution of animal form / Rudolf A. Raff.

  • Raff, Rudolf A.
Date:
1996
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Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Physical description

xxiii, 520 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

Over the ice for ontogeny and phylogeny -- Metazoan phyla and body plans -- Deep time and metazoan origins -- Molecular phylogeny : dissecting the metazoan radiation -- Recovering data from the past -- Developmental basis of body plans -- Building similar animals in different ways -- It's not all heterochrony -- Developmental constraints -- Modularity, dissociation and co-option -- Opportunistic genomes -- Evolving new body plans.

Bibliographic information

Includes index and bibliography: p. 435-491.

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  • 0226702650
  • 0226702669