Homology.
Homology' as a conceptbecame increasingly elusive during the course of the 20th century. The central debates and controversies concern both fundamental definitions and the nature of the criteria by which homology is judged. Attempts to move away from comparative morphology to ideas based on dev...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester :
John Wiley & Sons,
1999.
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| Series: | Novartis Foundation Symposia.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Homology' as a conceptbecame increasingly elusive during the course of the 20th century. The central debates and controversies concern both fundamental definitions and the nature of the criteria by which homology is judged. Attempts to move away from comparative morphology to ideas based on developmental pathways have tended to founder on the fact that developmental pathways evolve and that similar cells or tissues or structures in animals will often have different developmental origins. The use of information about conserved molecules in seemingly conserved developmental processes has also p. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 pages). |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780470515662 047051566X 9780470515655 0470515651 |