The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo

by Ron Amundson

Book Overview

In this book Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors had made history come out right for the Evolutionary Synthesis. The book starts with a revised history of nineteenth-century evolutionary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521703972
• ISBN13: 9780521703970
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"