Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo—Evolutionary Developmental Biology—is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering...
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For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo—Evolutionary Developmental Biology—is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically much simpler than anyone ever expected.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393327793 (0393327795)
Publish date: 2006-04-17
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 350
Edition language: English
Once again, I really wish the library had the ebook version of this. It's hard for me to write reviews of audiobooks, since I normally listen to them over a week or so and forget half of what I heard. Favorite parts included: the chapter about human evolution (not a shock), the part about zebras (I ...
Evo Devo stands for Evolutionary Developmental Biology and is a field which looks at both the way a fertilized egg becomes a living creature and the way changes in that process drive evolution. In Endless Forms Most Beautiful, the author/scientist Sean Carrol describes exciting new developments in t...
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