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Biased embryos and evolution /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arthur, Wallace
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Developmental Biology.
Embryonic Structures.
Biological Evolution.
Table of Contents:
  • The microscopic horse
  • What steers evolution?
  • Darwin : pluralism with a single core
  • How to build a body
  • A brief history of the last billion years
  • Preamble to the quiet revolution
  • The return of the organism
  • Possible creatures
  • The beginnings of bias
  • A deceptively simple question
  • Development's twin arrows
  • Action and reaction
  • Evolvability : organisms in bits
  • Back to the trees
  • Stripes and spots
  • Towards 'the inclusive synthesis'
  • Social creatures