Developmental Plasticity and Evolution

Developmental Plasticity and Evolution
ISBN-10
0195122356
ISBN-13
9780195122350
Category
Psychology
Pages
794
Language
English
Published
2003-04-10
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Mary Jane West-Eberhard

Description

West-Eberhard is widely recognized as one of the most incisive thinkers in evolutionary biology. This book assesses all the evidence for our current understanding of the role of changes in body plan and development for the process of speciation. The process of evolution is systematically reassessed to integrate the insights coming from developmental genetics. Every serious student of evolution, and a substantial share of developmental biologists and geneticists, will need to take note of this contribution. The timing is clearly ripe for the synthesis that this work will help bring about.

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