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How the snake lost its legs : curious tales from the frontier of evo-devo /

How did the zebra really get its stripes, and the giraffe its long neck? What is the science behind camel humps, leopard spots and other animal oddities? Such questions have fascinated us for centuries, but the expanding field of evo-devo (evolutionary developmental biology) is now providing, for th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Held, Lewis I., Jr., 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology)
Developmental biology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The first two-sided animal
  • 2. The fly
  • 3. The butterfly
  • 4. The snake
  • 5. The cheetah
  • 6. An evo-devo bestiary
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary.