From embryology to evo-devo : a history of developmental evolution /

Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.Although we now know that ontogeny (individual development) does not actually recapitulate phylogeny (evolutionary transformation), contrary to Ernst Haeckel...

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Other Authors:	Laubichler, Manfred Dietrich, Maienschein, Jane
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series:	Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
Subjects:	Developmental biology > History. Evolution (Biology) > History. Comparative embryology > History. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General Electronic books.
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