The Evolution of Developmental Pathways

by A.S. Wilkins

The contemporary field of evolutionary developmental biology is still a new subdiscipline of evolutionary biology, but it deals with some very old questions: how shape and form in complex organisms change during evolution. Integral to this subject are developmental genetics and molecular biology, and, increasingly, systematics, paleontology, and population genetics as well. The integration of the latter three subjects into evolutionary developmental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878939164
• ISBN13: 9780878939169
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford Un
• Length: 575 Pages
• Weight: 2.63 lbs.